Development of Analytical Competencies in the International Field Among Future Journalists and Media Communicators
Author(s)
Vitaly M. Strugovets, Candidate of Sciences (Politics), Associate Professor of the Department of
Media Communications, https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2399-0493, SPIN-code RSCI 6817-5057,
Institute of Mass Media and Advertising, Russian State University for the Humanities
6 Miusskaya Square, Moscow, 125047, Russia, tel: +7 (495) 2506118, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract. Introduction. The relevance of the article lies in the fact that for the first time the issues of preparing future journalists for information and analytical work on assessing the issues of alliance/partnership in the field of international relations are being considered. The scientific novelty consists in the development and testing of an experimental methodology for using information and analytical tables to assess the effectiveness of existing international unions/ associations in developing analytical competencies in the international field among future journalists and media communicators.
Materials and Methods. Based on the analysis of scientific publications and personal experience of the author, the important role of mass media in interstate relations is stated, which requires special attention to the development of necessary competencies, primarily analytical, during the training of journalists and media communication specialists as future actors of international communications. The article reveals the didactics and educational technologies for the development of analytical competencies of students, characterizes the content of information and analytical tasks in the field of international cooperation. The technologies of teaching analysis of models, categories, basic orientations of cooperation/partnership among states, principles of formal and non-formal (situational) partnerships, effectiveness and ephemerality of stated obligations are revealed. The article characterizes the features of the didactics of students’ development of information analysis skills to assess reliability, significance, consistency, completeness, the possibility of using it to solve a specific information and analytical problem, skills of data interpretation techniques using the example of cases of information sources, skills of techniques for making assumptions explaining the basic facts, skills of understanding and applying legal regulations for access to information sources according to the types of sources for various information and analytical tasks. The article evaluates the results of testing an experimental methodology for using information and analytical tables for assessing the effectiveness of existing international unions/associations in general and Russia’s partners in particular in the development of analytical competencies of future journalists and media communicators.
Results. It is recommended to introduce a course using the information and analytical tables developed by the author to evaluate the effectiveness of existing international unions/associations in the training program for all journalists and media communication specialists and in the practice of their research and project activities.
Keywords: teaching methods, analytical competencies, journalism, media communications, practice-oriented technologies, information and analytical tables
For citation: Strugovets V.M. Development of Analytical Competencies in the International Field Among Future Journalists and Media Communicators. Pedagogicheskiy IMIDZH = Pedagogical IMAGE. 2025; 19 (1). Pp. 106-121. (In Russ.). DOI: https://doi.org/10.32343/2409-5052-2025-19-1-106-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32343/2409-5052-2025-19-1-106-121
UDС: 378
The article was submitted to the editorial office on 05.01.2025, approved after review on 02.03.2025, and accepted for publication on 05.03.2025.