Reasons and Objectives Integrating Press into the Curriculum: An Empirical Study

Abstract

Our study is partly based on the UNESCO’ General Assemblies Recommendations, and its guidelines considered by many countries. Moreover, is based on the current legal Spanish regulations of the Ministry of Education and Culture relating the curricular integration of the communication media into teaching. The law does not ensure the results expected right away, but provides guidelines and stimulus to start the process with some guarantees. On the other hand, our study wants to answer to the new situation created by the massive expansion of communication media and new technologies, and also their uncontrolled effects and the necessity of relating teaching with the new realities. Motivation, didactic possibilities, relationship with the press among others is present when teachers start working with press, showing similar scores. More that half of teachers finds these new resources as feelings enhancers, what is new and very valuable. If this is true, we will be in front of a more humanist and humanizing model. Training of the global man is important, not only reasoning but also feelings. There is also post experiment evidence that press generates a creative attitude in students, and at the same time it provides them with new knowledge, which is very important. Because of these and other reasons there must be training for a new type of teacher that integrates media to attain new learning and new attitudes towards media and new knowledge without forgetting a critical and analytical attitude to design a new model of student.