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The Creation of Reality: A Constructivist Epistemology of Journalism and Journalism Education
Author(s): Bernhard Poerksen (Author)
- Publisher: Imprint Academic
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2011
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 250 pages
- ISBN-10: 184540209X
- ISBN-13: 9781845402099
Book Description
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 journalism and, in particular, the education and training of journalists, would profit substantially from constructivist insights. These insights instigate, the claim is, an original kind of scepticism; they provide the underpinnings of a modern type of didactics oriented by the autonomy of learners; and they supply the sustaining arguments for a radical ethic of responsibility in journalism.
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Review
“This is the right way to present constructivism to a critical scientific community as well as to a broader critical public.”
— Armin Scholl,Professor at the Institute for Communication Science in Münster,Germany ― Constructivist Foundations, Volume 6 Number 2 Published On: 2011-03-15
About the Author
Bernhard Poerksen, *1969, is professor of media studies at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research projects analyse the styles of impression and image management in politics and the media, he regularly contributes comments on current affairs and debates to newspapers, radio, and television. The book he wrote in 1998 with the physicist Heinz von Foerster about the truth in perception (Truth is the Invention of a Liar) became a bestseller and is now considered a classic of systemic thought. In 2008 Bernhard Poerksen was honoured for the quality of his teaching and chosen “Professor of the Year”.
