The creation of reality : a constructivist epistemology of journalism and journalism education / Bernhard Poerksen ; translated by Alison Rosemary Koeck and Wolfram Karl Koeck.

By:

Pörksen, Bernhard

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: Exeter : Imprint Academic, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781845404727
1845404726

Uniform titles:

Beobachtung des Beobachters. English

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creation of reality.DDC classification:

070.401 22

LOC classification:

PN4731 .P64 2011eb

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Preliminary Note; Introduction; Body matter; A. Foundations; I: Premises and Postulates; B. Educational Objectives; II: Deepening Critical Awareness of Science; III: Deepening Critical Awareness of Language; IV: Deepening Awareness of Media-Epistemology; V: Deepening Ethical Awareness; C. Ways of Learning; VI: Deepening Awareness of Autonomy; VII: The Reality of the Study of Journalism; VIII: Summary in the Form of Theses; Back matter; Bibliography; Also available.

Summary: Constructivism has been traded as a new paradigm by its advocates, and criticised by its opponents as legitimating deceit and lies, as justifying a trendy post-modern ""Anything goes"". In this book, Bernhard Poerksen draws up a new rationale for constructivist thinking and charts out directions for the imaginative examination of personal certainties and the certainties of others, of ideologies great and small. The focus of the debate is on the author's thesis that our understanding of journal ...

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257).

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Constructivism has been traded as a new paradigm by its advocates, and criticised by its opponents as legitimating deceit and lies, as justifying a trendy post-modern ""Anything goes"". In this book, Bernhard Poerksen draws up a new rationale for constructivist thinking and charts out directions for the imaginative examination of personal certainties and the certainties of others, of ideologies great and small. The focus of the debate is on the author's thesis that our understanding of journal ...

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