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Friday 8 June 2012

FROM THE ARCHIVE - Communication and media studies: curricula responding to a changing world

Communication and media studies: curricula responding to a changing world
Arran Stibbe, University of Gloucestershire
Communication and media studies curricula have always prepared students to be responsive to the changing world around them through critical, systemic and creative thinking. This article considers some of the global challenges that students are likely to face as they lead their lives in the twenty-first century (peak oil, climate instability, food insecurity, etc.) and questions whether curricula will need to become more grounded in the ecological embedding of human minds, individuals and societies within the larger systems that support life.

Published in Spring 2009: Networks, Issue 6, pp. 14 - 17.

To access the article

This article, although now 3 years old, is still very relevant today. For example, there is reference to Education for Sustainable development (ESD) in the draft Learning and Teaching Chapter of the UK Quality Code for Higher Education which is currently out for consultation and accessible from QAA's website until 25 July (see our 'GENERAL NEWS - from HE' post dated 8 June)

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