Implantation of Case Method in Journalism Studies in Spain. An Analysis Based on Teaching Guides

Abstract

Case Method is mostly used in educational fields such as Management, Law, Medicine, Public Government or Education but it has less tradition in teaching Journalism. With the implementation of the new university degrees adapted to the European Space for Higher Education, Case Method and other active learning methodologies arouse an increasing interest within the Journalism academic community in Spain, where these techniques are being incorporated in a manner which not always respects the concept, conditions and objectives of traditional Case Method. This article describes the level of implementation of Case Method in Spain’s faculties of Journalism, based on the analysis of the teaching guides of subjects included in the teaching programs of these faculties.