Reforming Iraqi Journalism and Mass Communication Higher Education

Abstract

Journalism and mass communication higher education in Iraq is well established but largely isolated from global developments since the 1970s. In the post–Iraq war period, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) implemented a multiyear project to work with the leadership of Iraqi higher education to help update the curriculum in journalism and mass communication in that country. This project adapted the UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education to the evolving higher education environment in Iraq. The authors were funded by UNESCO to help facilitate the adoption and adaptation of the model curriculum to the unique situation in Iraq.

Sustainable Journalism Education - the Only Possible Way to the Future / Održivo obrazovanje novinara – jedini mogući put u budućnost

“…(Picard, 2013, p. 31) Since the middle of the last century, UNESCO has been actively dealing with the advancement of journalism education, especially in a sustainable international context. Its instructions for the improvement of the journalism curriculum content are followed by studies of possibilities and the realisation of that approach in actual study programmes world-wide (Murphy & Scotton, 1987;Pavlik et al, 2012;Vukić, 2014Vukić, , 2017, and many others). From the system's perspective, journalism education, as part of the Croatian media system, was firstly studied in line with the UNESCO's indicators of media development a few years ago (Peruško et al, 2011).…”