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Journalism education as transformative praxis

The debate about journalism education has several dimensions. The debate is not only a South African one, nor is it only a recent one. In South Africa, however, the debate about journalism education and the attendant theoretical frameworks from which journalism should be studied also have an ideological history. While the battle lines in this ideological conflict are not as starkly drawn in the post-apartheid era, questions regarding education journalists still have ideological and political implications, even if these look different in a post-apartheid context where journalism education is often done in a market-oriented setting. This article examines how journalism education can be redefined within post-apartheid South Africa against the background of the imperatives of social transformation. It argues for a re-appraisal of the concept of praxis as a way of combining research, theory and practice in such a way that education can play a role in social intervention in striving towards continued transformation of the media.