EDUCATION EXPERTS: AGENTS OF CONTEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE?

• Authors: Šimáková Monika
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

More and more experts from the social sciences are appearing in the media to provide expert opinions on media coverage of events and social issues. However, with regard to the conditions under which media content is produced, a growing number of voices have been pointing to the fact that quasi-experts with a media interest tend to speak more in the media than scientifically trained scholars. This article conducts an analysis of media outputs to examine whether this criticism is relevant to the field of education in the Czech media landscape, and the analysis shows that in almost half of cases the so-called “education experts” commenting on education in the media were quasi-experts – people to whom the authority and status to speak on education is attributed by the media – rather than scholarly experts. The analysis results in a classification of experts on education speaking in the Czech media – they usually choose similar rhetoric and accentuate only selected educational topics.

Keywords

EN

EDUCATION EXPERT; ANALYSIS OF MEDIA; MEDIA; CZECH REPUBLIC

• Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University
• Journal: Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 71 – 95

Contributors

author

Šimáková Monika

• Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Celetná 20, Prague 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2478/jped-2024-0004