Teaching journalism or teaching African journalism? Experiences from foreign involvement in a journalism programme in Ethiopia
Teaching journalism or teaching African journalism? Experiences from foreign involvement in a journalism programme in Ethiopia
复制标题
教授新闻学还是教授非洲新闻学？
DOI：
10.5789/5-1-56
复制
发表时间：
2011
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
T. Skjerdal
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
T. Skjerdal
非洲大陆各地的新闻方案对新闻业的普遍价值与地方价值问题有不同的态度。本文结合2004年在亚的斯亚贝巴大学开设的新闻学研究生课程讨论了这一问题。在为期5年的实施阶段，该方案除了聘请当地教师外，还聘请了来自欧洲和北美的教育工作者。因此，可以预见，西方和埃塞俄比亚的新闻方式之间可能会发生冲突。然而，根据亚的斯亚贝巴方案的经验，本研究对西方和埃塞俄比亚(或非洲)新闻话语之间假定的二分法提出了质疑。在计划和执行该方案时，紧张关系确实出现了，但它们是由所涉教员的专业背景和个人喜好等决定因素决定的，而不是由地理和文化出身决定的。
Journalism programmes across the African continent have different attitudes to the issue of universal vs. local values in journalism. This article discusses the issue in light of a post-graduate journalism programme that opened at Addis Ababa University in 2004. In its 5-year implementation phase, the programme engaged educators from Europe and North America in addition to local instructors. Thus, one could expect a potential conflict between Western and Ethiopian approaches to journalism. However, on the basis of experiences with the Addis Ababa programme, the present study questions the assumed dichotomy between Western and Ethiopian (or African) journalism discourses. Tensions did indeed come to the fore when the programme was planned and implemented, but they were defined by determinants such as professional background and personal preferences of the instructors involved rather than by geographical and cultural origin.