Teaching Journalism for Sustainable Development

This publication represents UNESCO’s ongoing clarification of how journalism education can remain engaged with wider processes of development and democracy. With the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being renegotiated into what will be called the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a long-term pedagogical strategy is to call attention to the seamless correlation between a free, independent and pluralistic media system and the overall process of sustainable development.

Against this background, all the syllabi in this particular publication are underpinned by the theme of human development, indicating UNESCO’s unique normative role in promoting good practices and agenda-setting with regard to journalism education worldwide. In this regard, the publication helps to extend our theoretical understanding of journalism as a responsive, dynamic and evolving practice, and thus significantly be a step beyond the model curricula originally published in 2007.

In so doing, the publication brings together a diverse ensemble of some of the top journalism education experts whose broad appeal is to integrate the notion of sustainable development into journalistic pedagogy.