Contextualising journalism education and training in Southern Africa

Journal Article

2007

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Authors
Banda, Fackson
Beukes-Amiss, Catherine M
Bosch, Tanja
Mano, Winston
McLean, Polly
Steenveld, Lynette
Journal Title

Equid Novi: South African Journal for Journalism Research

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http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/recq20/current
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University of Cape Town

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Centre for Film and Media Studies
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
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Abstract
In this article it is argued that journalism education in Southern Africa must contend with defining a new academic identity for itself, extricating itself from dependency on Western oriented models of journalism education and training, as this has been a perennial challenge in most of Africa.
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Botswana
colonialism
identity
journalism education
Lesotho
Malawi
Namibia
South Africa
Swazi

Reference:

Banda, F., Beukes-Amiss, C. M., Bosch, T., Mano, W., McLean, P., & Steenveld, L. (2007). Contextualising journalism education and training in Southern Africa. Ecquid Novi, 28(1-2), 156-175.

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