The Creation of Reality: A Constructivist Epistemology of Journalism and Journalism Education

by Bernhard Poerksen

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184540209X
• ISBN13: 9781845402099
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"