Abstract

TV-journalism can never be thought successfully entirely on a theoretical basis. The students must experience the professions challenges and difficulties by exercising and experiencing the TV-journalistic methods, TV-tools and TVaesthetics in practice in order to achieve skills within TV-journalism. The article discusses how Kolb’s learning circle successfully provides a pedagogic approach in practical journalism learning and teaching. Kolb experiential learning theory says that ideally the learning process represents a learning cycle or spiral where the learner touches four bases in process, that means a cycle of experiencing, reflecting, thinking, and acting. Kolb describes four different learning styles or learning preferences. This refers to four different ways of experiencing the learning process. Every learner has a preference to learn in different ways andthe learning circle offers the learners to fulfil the learning process no matter what starting point the learner prefers. This approach focuses on journalism training as growing a person from the inside, whereas conventional teaching and training is the transfer of capability into a person from the outside. Keywords: coaching, conventional learning, David A. Kolb, Experience Based Learning Systems, Experiential Learning Theory, International TV-program, journalism studies, learning cycle, learning process, pedagogical approach, TV-journalism. p>

Highlights

  • Introduction to Danish culture and societyIntroduction to TV-tools Current affairs, theory and productionWorkshop and/or excursion to foreign countryDocumentary, theory and production TV-assignmentsVisual storytelling (1 minute)1 mini-documentary (15 minutes)Danish School of Media and Journalism (DSMJ) offers semi-professional production equipment for the production of the TV-assignments, SONY DSR 250 DV-CAM cameras and Final Cut Express software for editing

  • Kolb experiential learning theory says that ideally the learning process represents a learning cycle or spiral where the learner touches four bases in process, that means a cycle of experiencing, reflecting, thinking, and acting

  • Kolb describes four different learning styles or learning preferences. This refers to four different ways of experiencing the learning process

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Summary

Journalism teaching and experiential learning

TV-journalism can never be thought successfully entirely on a theoretical basis. The students must experience the professions challenges and difficulties by exercising and experiencing the TV-journalistic methods, TV-tools and TVaesthetics in practice in order to achieve skills within TV-journalism. The article discusses how Kolb’s learning circle successfully provides a pedagogic approach in practical journa­lism learning and teaching. Every learner has a preference to learn in different ways and the learning circle offers the learners to fulfil the learning process no matter what starting point the learner prefers. This approach focuses on journalism training as growing a person from the inside, whereas conventional teaching and training is the transfer of capability into a person from the outside. Kolb’s experiential learning theory provides a useful theoretical framework for a pedagogical and didactic approach to the journalistic learning process.

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Pedagogic approach
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Experiential learning
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Žurnalistikos studijos ir patirtinis mokymasis
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