Abstract:
In the work entitled “Television and education for the values of local culture in Mozambique: a study from
the programming grid of three television channels”, we took as object the programming grids of three television
channels in Mozambique and proposed a discussion that establishes a relationship between Television, Education
and Local Cultural Values. Given that canned television content predominates on national television in an average
order of 50%, we question the meaning of national television educational action and its social axiological dimension
for Mozambicans. Our questioning is supported by the Gramscian consideration according to which Television is one
of the most important institutions of civil society that has the function of educating for the consensus of fundamental
social groups and, thus, constitutes a trench of struggle for hegemony. Understood in this way, Television is a
mediation of non-formal education. The objective is, therefore, to understand that education for local cultural values is
provided by national television channels in Mozambique. From a methodological point of view, we took Dialectics as
a compass that led us to possible answers to our investigative concern. The research results indicate that Portuguese
colonial education imposed a rupture with the cultural and social values of the natives and such rupture, as our study
will show, has extended to the present. In Television, we identified a grid dependent on content whose values are
inherent to the dominant countries in the media industry, unrelated to the local culture, so the education provided by
the analyzed television channels is not for the values of local culture, nor for the cultural memory based on in
ancestry. As a suggestion, we point to the need for a Mozambiology in the programming schedules of Mozambican
television, a fact that may allow Mozambican Television to contribute to an education for the values of local culture.
