Setting students’ professional agenda in the classroom
Setting students’ professional agenda in the classroom

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the study was to gauge the fl ow of information from university lecturers to students. The fundamental hypothetical basis used for the study was that of agenda-setting theory – the idea that the mass media have a strong infl uence on the public agenda. Th e role of the university lecturer as a source of information and the infl uence of that information upon students and their agenda was the object of the study. The empirical study featured a panel of 248 Spanish university students and the results highlight the importance of the role of the university lecturer in channelling information to students even though findings demonstrate that the issues which are important for students (their agenda) may be less relevant for lecturers.

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