Riding the Waves

Journalism Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Bibliographic Data

ID7497543
AuthorsAnthea Garman (0000-0002-8715-8542, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, corresponding author), Mia Van Der Merwe (Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa)
Year2017
Volume72
Issue3
Pages306-318
Publication date2017-08-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism & Mass Communication Educator (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-6958 • E-ISSN: 2161-4326
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077695817720679
OpenAlexW2749767245
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

Since 1994, South African journalism education has undergone waves of introspection about curricula and methods of teaching as educators respond to the challenging realities of the post-apartheid environment. The most recent challenge to journalism educators is the student protests which started at the end of 2015, questioning the high costs of education and demanding “decolonization” of curricula. The traditional alignment with media companies has also been upended as the drastic contraction of newsrooms removes the promise of jobs upon graduation and the swiftly shifting digital terrain rearranges the financial basis of all journalism. These factors introduce a dynamism and uncertainty into South African journalism that educators are compelled to respond to with imagination and principle

Curriculum · Dynamism · Introspection · Journalism · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Technical Journalism · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Literacy, Media, and Education · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology