TY - JOUR TT - HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION IN JOURNALISM CURRICULUM: CONSTRUCTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS CULTURE AU - Arcan, H. Esra PY - 2011 DA - June JF - İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi Dergisi JO - İAÜD PB - İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1309-1352 SP - 1 EP - 22 VL - 3 IS - 10 KW - nsan hakları KW - Gazetecilik KW - İnsan hakları kültürü KW - Hak temelli gazetecilik KW - Gazetecilik yüksek eğitim müfredatı N2 - Unlike any other profession, journalism needs a certain level development of human rights in a society in order to fulfill the profession. Without freedom of expression a qualified journalism practice is not possible on the one hand, on the other hand human rights cannot be spread, develop and protect without support of the media and journalism. Because of this unique relationship and existential interdependence, qualified journalism practice gets benefits from human rights culture and peace. However, unless having human rights based approach, the media and journalism is a double-edged sword. Journalists can be a protector of human rights as well as a violator of human rights, thus placing human rights courses that aim to teach human rights in general and human rights approach to journalism in journalism curriculum is necessary. Understanding above mentioned complex and complicated interaction between human rights and journalism practice and recognizing importance of human rights based approach to the journalism gives a new perspective to the future generation of journalists that helps to construct a human rights culture in which human being can live with more dignity and equality and build a just society. This paper takes its starting point probable contribution of rights based approach and rights based journalism in context of construction of human rights culture and later frame fundamental principles of human rights based journalism in general. Considering undergraduate and graduate level journalism education in Turkey, it poses questions including: What are the main components as focus areas of journalism education in curricular level? What is the place of human rights education and courses in journalism curriculum? Answering these questions paper will discuss visibility or invisibility of human rights and rights based journalism education in Turkey and also journalism educators‟ approach to human rights based journalism. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/iaud/issue//324506 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/319334 ER -