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- Title
Efficient Journalism Training for Effective Journalism Research and Practice in Tanzania: A Quest for a Binding National Training Framework.
- Authors
Ng'atigwa, Francis Xavier
- Abstract
The article contributes to current debates on journalism training in Tanzania and its impacts on journalism-related research and practice. Two notable journalism training institutions, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication (SJMC) of the University of Dar es Salaam and the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of St. Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT), have been taken as cases. Document Review and Interviews were used to collect data for this study. The UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education (2007) was used as a frame to analyse journalism training and unveil its impact on journalism research and practice in the two institutions. The study found that the two institutions adopted the UNESCO Curricula Model (2007) and adopted it in their programmes. However, their journalism curricula lack a good balance between theoretical and practical modules whereby programmes of the two institutions are tailored to include many theoretical units than practical ones. Furthermore, the two institutions lack programmes which answer to journalism training that could equip journalists with knowledge for better journalism practice. Equally, the two institutions lack research units that could concentrate on journalism research and come up with journalism-related research agendas. The paper recommends a binding national training framework to guide all journalism training institutions aiming at bringing impact on journalism-related research agendas and better journalism practice, which will be mirrored by the needs of Tanzania.
- Subjects
JOURNALISM research; JOURNALISM education; JOURNALISM writing; JOURNALISTIC ethics; MASS media
- Publication
African Communication Research, 2023, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1821-6544
- Publication type
Article