Pacific media education mapping project

2011 - Ongoing

Five years ago, UNESCO embarked on a global consultation on media education strategies and published a scoping booklet, Model Curricula for Journalism Education for Developing Countries & Emerging Democracies (2007) setting out its findings.

It examined the central core of journalism education such as serving society by informing the public, scrutinising the way power is exercised, stimulating democratic debate and through these characteristics aiding political, economic, social and cultural development.

The 148-page booklet defined a model curriculum. Now, three years after the publication of that report, this research project seeks to analyse how effective this model has been in the Pacific, or even if has been used as a benchmark or adopted in any way in the three university and five polytechnic journalism schools in Pacific Island Forum countries (excluding Australia and New Zealand).

This project will also map journalism education in the region and develop a database.

Researcher: Rukhsana Aslam
Project duration: 2012
Funding: AUT University