As part of our civic and educational engagement, we have worked along other relevant stakeholders (e.g., educators, students, NGO, teaching experts, etc.) in the co-creation of teaching materials on gender issues.

This fruitful collaboration is still ongoing. More materials will be added soon.

Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA)

Authors: Helen Caple and Monika Bednarek (2022)

This unit of work explore how the news media create newsworthy stories our of events and happenings in the world. The focus throughout the unit is on developing an understanding of the discursive construction of news values, with a particular emphasis on language and news photography and how they contribute to the construction of newsworthiness in hard news stories in the news media.

File 1. Handout on news values (Bednarek & Caple, 2017)

File 2. Understanding newsworthiness and the news media (student’s copy)

File 3. Understanding newsworthiness and the news media (teacher’s notes)

Educative materials for the Spanish NGO “Ayuda en Acción”

For several years now, our research group has fruitfully collaborated with the Spanish NGO “Ayuda en Acción” in the design, revision and translation of the materials for their educative programme. Dr Begoña Clavel-Arroitia (with Dr Jesús Fernández Domínguez) created some materials for their campaign for gender equality, implemented in many schools in Spain and Latin America. Access and download the materials: HERE.