Model curricula for journalism education now available in Nepali
03-06-2010 (Kathmandu)
Cover page of the Curricula
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Journalism education in Nepal can now be planned in a much more systematic and coordinated way, as UNESCO has just released the Nepali version of its guide, Model Curricula for Journalism Education. The guide will shortly be presented to media trainers and professionals during a nationwide workshop.
UNESCO’s Model Curricula for Journalism Education provides generic models that can be adapted according to each country’s specific needs. The publication takes full cognisance of the social, economic, political and cultural contexts of developing countries and emerging democracies, highlighting the connection between democracy and journalism and arguing for a more cross-disciplinary approach within journalism training centres.
While preparing the curricula, a team of four experts, commissioned for the initial development of the journalism education initiative, solicited a response to their first draft from twenty senior journalism educators who were deemed to have considerable work experience in developing countries and emerging democracies. Their responses proved to be essential for the establishment of appropriate and applicable curricula. The revised draft design thus featured a list of courses for both undergraduate and post-graduate levels, a brief description of each course and an outline of fundamental journalism competencies.
Journalism instructors with work experience in developing countries or emerging democracies were then carefully selected from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America to write the syllabuses for seventeen core courses. The draft curricula were reviewed at a second experts’ consultative meeting at UNESCO in Paris. A number of model syllabuses were then selected for the formal presentation of the document to the World Journalism Education Congress in June 2007 in Singapore.
The Model Curricula for Journalism Education is currently available in seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Nepali, Russian and Spanish. To download the publication in these languages in PDF please click here.
While preparing the curricula, a team of four experts, commissioned for the initial development of the journalism education initiative, solicited a response to their first draft from twenty senior journalism educators who were deemed to have considerable work experience in developing countries and emerging democracies. Their responses proved to be essential for the establishment of appropriate and applicable curricula. The revised draft design thus featured a list of courses for both undergraduate and post-graduate levels, a brief description of each course and an outline of fundamental journalism competencies.
Journalism instructors with work experience in developing countries or emerging democracies were then carefully selected from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America to write the syllabuses for seventeen core courses. The draft curricula were reviewed at a second experts’ consultative meeting at UNESCO in Paris. A number of model syllabuses were then selected for the formal presentation of the document to the World Journalism Education Congress in June 2007 in Singapore.
The Model Curricula for Journalism Education is currently available in seven languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Nepali, Russian and Spanish. To download the publication in these languages in PDF please click here.
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· Nepal
· Training of Media Professionals
· Journalism Curricula
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