Methods of Teaching and Pedagogical Peculiarities of Organizing of the Educational Process Aimed to Issue a Newspapers by Students

Abstract

In the article the peculiarities of the organization of educational process of preparing and publishing newspapers by students of the first (bachelor) level of higher education in the specialty «Journalism» are explored, from the point of view of general approaches in the pedagogics of modern higher education. The professional discussion on the content of journalism education in Ukraine was considered through the prism of needs and challenges of the higher education of our country. The author proposed a personal view on solving the problem through deepening the pedagogical mastery of a modern journalism teacher. Using the example of laboratory classes in the discipline «A Journalistic Craftsmanship» taught on the Faculty of Journalism, Advertising and Publishing of Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University, the author specified shapes and lines of the pedagogical strategy used to train future journalists through practical and creative activities, which are aimed at preparing and publishing issues of newspapers. The logical content of the algorithm of mutually determined actions of the teacher and learners is shown in detail, not as a traditional dichotomy of «subject-object» education, but as equal actors in a state of cooperation. The text of the article provides a general description of the study of the discipline «A Journalistic Craftsmanship» and describes the order of producing newspapers by students’ editorial boards. The interactive nature of the form of student education within the laboratory of periodical press has been proven. The pedagogical methods used by principals of the students’ newspaper editorial boards, the peculiarities and conditions of conducting laboratory classes are indicated, the didactic capacity of the content of the educational discipline «A Journalistic Craftsmanship» is systematized. In the conclusions, the author proposed to consider the pedagogical activity of a principal managing a students’ editorial board as it consists of three major components: a professionalization of students’ practical rate, a pedagogical management, a pedagogical mastery. The results of the study will be interesting to managers of the educational process, as well as to the teaching staff of higher education institutions, administrative staff, and specialists in the field of media.