Abstract:

Romany Academy of Media was a cycle of TV programmes broadcasted every week during 2013-14 year on the public TV in Poland. The programmes were to educate the same time students of journalism involved in the production of movies and preparation of programmes. Students took on the role of hosts, and at the filmset they worked with professionals, experiencing natural conditions in difficult circumstances (emotions, conflict situations encountered, necessary reactions to changing conditions). Professionals played the role of teachers, but they also required professional co-operation and effects.

In the Project of Romany Academy of Media the following effects were achieved:
1. Gaining professional skills through taking on a role in an unsimulated experience of a situation of a professional task fulfillment in conditions controlled by the professionals. It was not straight teaching, but performing a task with the assumption of a finished professional effect.
2. Education of the recipients through a change of a commonly existing image of a Romany national minority from a negative stereotype to a positive one which makes a dialogue possible.
3. Attracting the attention of journalism students to take up challenging topics and facing the ethical dimension of journalism.

Keywords:

Romany, project education, journalism.