Constructivism has been traded as a new paradigm by its advocates,
and criticised by its opponents as legitimating deceit and lies, as
justifying a trendy post-modern "Anything goes." In this book,
Bernhard Poerksen draws up a new rationale for constructivist
thinking and charts out directions for the imaginative examination
of personal certainties and the certainties of others, of
ideologies great and small. The focus of the debate is on the
author's thesis that our understanding of journalism and, in
particular, the education and training of journalists, would profit
substantially from constructivist insights. These insights
instigate, the claim is, an original kind of scepticism; they
provide the underpinnings of a modern type of didactics oriented by
the autonomy of learners; and they supply the sustaining arguments
for a radical ethic of responsibility in journalism. Bernhard
Poerksen, b. 1969, after six years as professor of journalism and
communication studies at the University of Hamburg, is now
professor of media studies at the University of Tubingen, Germany.
He studied German, journalism and biology in Hamburg and the USA
(Pennsylvania State University), worked as a trainee with Deutsches
Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt, and has been active as a journalist and
an author of books for over ten years. His essays and commentaries,
reports and interviews, appear in many daily and weekly newspapers.
He has also published numerous articles in scholarly journals and
books; his books on cybernetics and constructivism (e.g.
Understanding Systems, with Heinz von Foerster; From Being to
Doing, with Humberto Maturana; The Certainty of Uncertainty.
Dialogues introducing constructivism) are available in German,
English, Spanish, Danish and Italian versions. In 2008, Bernhard
Poerksen was voted 'Professor of the Year' in the category
Humanities, Social and Cultural Studies.
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