Verbal Reasoning Analysis and its impact on intercultural journalistic training, in the Víctor Manuel Peñaherrera Educational Unit journalism club, Ibarra canton, Imbabura Province, Ecuador

Abstract

This research analyzes the topic of verbal reasoning and its impact on intercultural journalistic training, specifically on the teaching of journalistic writing. It is a qualitative study with a decolonial perspective motivated by the current contributions of intercultural communication, self-communication and indigenous journalism. It was proposed to know and unravel the colonizing factors that dominate the journalistic writing teaching in Spanish and that homogenize writing. Students from the Victor Manuel Peñaherrera Educational Unit journalism club participated in this investigation. The information was collected based on an experiential process of focal group with high school students with an aptitude for journalism. The analysis consisted of observing the norm of verbal reasoning application in concrete practices of journalistic writing in contrast to the theories of intercultural communication. The results showed that the field of verbal reasoning is a functional preconception that draws colonial inheritances and completely regulates the written communication system. The objectives and contents move away from the true sense of communication, limits the intercultural freedom of writing, expressing and communicating, nullifying the diversity of multicultural reasoning and realities as well as influencing the compression and practice of journalistic genres, so that the Conventional journalism is seen as "the profession of writing well," that is; restrictive, so it does not arouse interest. Therefore, it is necessary to interculturalize the teaching process of journalistic writing and open the field to intercultural journalism.