Journalism's Role in the Secondary School Language Arts Curriculum in the Context of the Educational Reform Movement [microform] / Jack Dvorak
- Bib ID:
- 5450639
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- Author:
- Dvorak, Jack
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1985
- 40 p.
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Through a review of literature, this paper notes that journalism has been fulfilling several elements considered crucial in the language arts program for many years, more richly and more understandably for students than many traditional English composition courses and other writing classes. In view of this, and in light of the many educational reform commissions' directives, a one- or two-semester journalism course should be considered a worthy writing course in either the college bound or the general curriculum. The paper then examines several concerns raised by the commissions about language arts, writing's role in learning, writing competencies fulfilled in journalism courses, research related to journalistic writing, problems with English education, programs for English educators, and the reform movement and nonwriting journalistic competencies. In conclusion, the paper recommends that the credibility of journalism as a vital part of the language arts curriculum needs to be studied and that evidence supporting that part needs to be widely disseminated; that high school journalism classes need to attract and keep good teachers; and that press associations on all levels need to become active in disseminating research and concerns of journalism educators to influential groups and decision makers. (FL)
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Mid-Winter Meeting of the Secondary Education Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Indianapolis, IN, January 11-12, 1985).
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