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2003年，当一个来自伊丽莎白学校语言媒体文化学的业余初级演讲者讲演时，我注意到新闻专业的学生被教授了更多的罗马与希腊文化。让我感到讽刺的是，这些学生都站在非洲的土地上，而且大部分人一毕业就将会在非洲从事他们的专业，但是他们却没有学习非洲文化。所以我决定依靠我自己来解决这种矛盾，为传播新文学的学生们开发一些有关非洲文化的课程。在这一章节中，我展示了自己2010年在斯泰伦博斯大学任教和学习的经历，以及它是如何正面作用于新闻伦理的。

首次会面接触中，我要求六个学生写一篇500字的文章来阐释他们心中的“非洲文化”。尽管他们是匿名的，但被要求写了年龄，性别，种族。他们被要求保留这篇文章的复印件，所以在这学期末的时候，他们可以在课程结束之后比较自己先后的印象变化，他们需要说明自己的潜在印象是依然坚定还是转变了，以及这个模块的学习是否能在他们成为记者的道路上避免刻板印象新闻。在分享这些印象之前，有必要首先给出非洲文化的定义和理解。

In 2003, while a part-time junior lecturer at the University of Port Elizabeth’s School of Languages, Media and Culture, I noticed that Communication and Journalism students were taught Roman and Greek Culture among other modules. The irony for me was that these students were on the African soil, and many of them were most likely, upon their graduation, to practise their profession in Africa, yet they were not studying African culture. Consequently I took it upon myself to address this discrepancy, and so have developed modules on African Culture for Communication and Journalism students. In this chapter, I reflect on the teaching and learning experience in the 2010 class at the University of Stellenbosch, and how this could contribute towards ethical journalism.

In the first contact session, the twenty six students were requested to write an essay of about 500 words about what the concept “African culture” conjured up in their minds. While their identities were kept anonymous, they were asked to reveal their ages, ethnic group and gender. They were requested to keep copies of their essays so that at the end of the semester, they would compare their earlier impressions with their final impressions after they had completed the course. Specifically after the completion of the module, they were required to determine whether their initial impressions were confirmed or altered, and whether the module would help them, as future journalists, to avoid stereotyped journalism. Before sharing these impressions, it is important to first give a definition of what is understood by “African culture”.

Defining African Culture

African culture, in the context of this article, should be understood as the sum total of African philosophy, ideas, and artifacts (Asante, 1996:4). In discussing culture in general, and African culture in particular, this author is not oblivious to the fact that culture is dynamic and not static or frozen in time. This point is alluded to in Biko’s (2005:106) definition of culture about which he observes that it is “essentially the society’s composite answer to the varied problems of life”. This definition makes the point that culture is the way in which people deal with their everyday challenges, meaning that as time moves, and new challenges arise, people must have new ideas and approaches to such challenges. It is against this background that Wiredu (1980:10) notes that the culture of a people is their total way of l本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。