TY - JOUR
T1 - Reform and challenge
T2 - An Analysis of China's Journalism Education under Social Transition
AU - Yu, Xu
AU - Chu, Leonard L.
AU - Guo, Zhongshi
N1 - Funding information:
This project was funded by the RGC grant HKBU 2026/97H.
Publisher copyright:
© 2002 SAGE PUBLICATIONS
PY - 2002/2
Y1 - 2002/2
N2 - A survey of 30 of China's journalism and communication schools traces changes and continuity in the country's journalism education in the past three decades during which dramatic economic and sociopolitical reforms were implemented. Guided by the classic theories of the press and their more recent extensions, this study focuses on two major areas of observation and analysis: (1) journalism schools' internal structural adaptation to the changing social environment; and (2) facilitating forces and constraints imposed on journalism education reform stemming from a unique mixture of commercialization under authoritarian political control. The authors found increasingly intimate ties between pedagogical strategies and market demands. However, despite attempts to push the ideological limits towards more liberalized training, journalism schools continue to yield to political pressure for conformity to the orthodox party line
AB - A survey of 30 of China's journalism and communication schools traces changes and continuity in the country's journalism education in the past three decades during which dramatic economic and sociopolitical reforms were implemented. Guided by the classic theories of the press and their more recent extensions, this study focuses on two major areas of observation and analysis: (1) journalism schools' internal structural adaptation to the changing social environment; and (2) facilitating forces and constraints imposed on journalism education reform stemming from a unique mixture of commercialization under authoritarian political control. The authors found increasingly intimate ties between pedagogical strategies and market demands. However, despite attempts to push the ideological limits towards more liberalized training, journalism schools continue to yield to political pressure for conformity to the orthodox party line
KW - internal and external structural change
KW - journalism education
KW - pedagogical strategies
KW - reform in China
KW - theories of the press
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84993683833&doi=10.1177%2f17480485020640010401&partnerID=40&md5=4fbca02a110a73eb5cf117526b2c4273
U2 - 10.1177/17480485020640010401
DO - 10.1177/17480485020640010401
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84993683833
SN - 1748-0485
VL - 64
SP - 63
EP - 77
JO - International Communication Gazette
JF - International Communication Gazette
IS - 1
ER -