Social conceiving and local view as bases for a journalistic education with a humanist and citizenship character

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the theoretical outline and a set of methodologies that sustain and enable the development of a pedagogical perspective at the Social Communication School (precisely Journalism) of the University of the State of Mato Grosso (Unemat), in the city of Alto Araguaia, Central West Region of Brazil, based on the valorization of a local view and a social character. Seeks to expose how concepts of education, communication and journalism line up in order to ensure an academic formation guided by critical reading of reality, social historical protagonism, the humanistic dimension of knowledge and by the maturity of a culture of promotion of public and general interests. Shows how this theoretical base is made possible from teaching techniques applied to subjects linked to the news´s conceptualization and production, encouraging college students to increase interest and comprehension regarding the logical functioning of the places where they live, insert themselves to this reality and act in order to reduce the symbolic imbalance among social actors that forms part with the city.

Keywords

• social conceiving journalism
• local view
• dialogical communication
• collaborative learning