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Explorando la educación en medios como práctica cívica en África Exploring Media Education as Civic Praxis in Africa

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dc.creator Fackson Banda
dc.date 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:41:28Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:41:28Z
dc.identifier DOI:10.3916/c32-2009-02-015
dc.identifier 1134-3478
dc.identifier 1988-3293
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/a71f1a99dcee4eff9b6cbb52ff135d8f
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/23360
dc.description Este trabajo sostiene que la educación en medios africana debe definir una agenda pedagógica para la ciudadanía. Esa tarea se sitúa en un revisionismo poscolonial de formas liberales de pensamiento y práctica acerca de los medios. Esta dependencia neo-colonial de la educación en medios africana es evidente en el énfasis pedagógico de la automatización periodística-profesional. Sin embargo, los africanos se están volviendo crecientemente apáticos, política y cívicamente. Esta aportación demanda una visión emancipatoria del periodismo inmerso en la sociedad civil. Se basa en el estudio de caso de clubs de radio-escuchas para ilustrar la influencia cívica de los medios en Malawi y Zambia, y propone un modelo de educación mediática para la ciudadanía. La tesis clave de este modelo incluye realzar el análisis crítico de la correlación entre medios, democracia y desarrollo; desarrollar una visión emancipatoria del periodismo; cultivar una ciudadanía activa; fortificar una infraestructura institucional viable de democracia, y promover una adhesión informada a los derechos humanos. This article argues that African media education must define a pedagogical agenda for citizenship. That task lies in a postcolonial revisionism of liberal modes of thought and practice about media. This neo-colonial dependence of African media education is evident in the pedagogical emphasis on professional- journalistic automation. However, Africans are increasingly becoming politically and civically apathetic. This analysis calls for an emancipatory vision of journalism that is embedded in civil society. It uses a case study of radio listening clubs to illustrate the civic influence of the media in Malawi and Zambia. It concludes by proposing a model of media education for citizenship. The key tenets of the model include enhancing critical analysis of the correlation between media, democracy and development; developing an emancipatory vision of journalism; cultivating an active citizenship; entrenching a viable institutional infrastructure of democracy; and promoting an informed adherence to human rights.
dc.language Spanish
dc.language English
dc.publisher Grupo Comunicar Ediciones
dc.relation http://www.revistacomunicar.com/numeros_anteriores/archivospdf/32/20-banda.pdf
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1134-3478
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1988-3293
dc.rights CC BY-NC-SA
dc.source Comunicar, Vol XVI, Iss 32, Pp 167-180 (2009)
dc.subject Ciudadanía
dc.subject Sociedad civil
dc.subject Cultura cívica
dc.subject Periodismo emancipatorio
dc.subject Derechos humanos
dc.subject Educación en medios
dc.subject Citizenship
dc.subject Civil society
dc.subject Civic culture
dc.subject Emancipatory journalism
dc.subject Human rights
dc.subject Media education
dc.subject Communication. Mass media
dc.subject P87-96
dc.subject Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject P1-1091
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject DOAJ:Media and communication
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Communication. Mass media
dc.subject P87-96
dc.subject Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject P1-1091
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject DOAJ:Media and communication
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Communication. Mass media
dc.subject P87-96
dc.subject Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject P1-1091
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Communication. Mass media
dc.subject P87-96
dc.subject Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject P1-1091
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Communication. Mass media
dc.subject P87-96
dc.subject Philology. Linguistics
dc.subject P1-1091
dc.subject Language and Literature
dc.subject P
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Explorando la educación en medios como práctica cívica en África Exploring Media Education as Civic Praxis in Africa
dc.type article


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