Loss and sacrifice are, on some level, sensations everyone knows. Such things make us feel like v... more Loss and sacrifice are, on some level, sensations everyone knows. Such things make us feel like victims, like we've given of ourselves more than we knew we could offer, more than we received in return, like we've given up something valuable and can't ever get it back. Inevitably, loss and sacrifice are also what most of us would identify as isolating events; we tend to see ourselves as living loss and sacrifice alone… [That said] loss, in many ways, is about gain…Loss and sacrifice, if they are to matter-if they are to have meaning-should be remembered, should be acknowledged, should be appreciated. (Fassett and Warren 139) John and I wrote the above insights about loss nearly ten years ago, knowing that we had already and would continue to live these lessons, but not in such a sudden and painful way. John's death at age 36 from advanced esophageal cancer was a surprise for us all-his family and friends, his colleagues and disciplinary community. This special issue o...
Preface Part I: First Principles 1. Communication: A Cultural Introduction 2. Communication and P... more Preface Part I: First Principles 1. Communication: A Cultural Introduction 2. Communication and Power: A Cultural History 3. Public Advocacy: Commitments and Responsibility Part II: Communication Processes and Skills 4. Compassionate Critical Listening 5. Groups and Alliances in Culture 6. Identity and Perception 7. Language and Culture Part III: Communication Contexts 8. Embodied Knowledge and Non-Verbal Communication 9. Language and Power in Our Cultural Lives 10. Interpersonal Relationships in Culture 11. Mediated Culture(s) 12. Communication as a Means of Social Action Glossary Index About the Authors
Introduction: Critical Communication Pedagogy - Deanna L. Fassett and John T. Warren SECTION I: C... more Introduction: Critical Communication Pedagogy - Deanna L. Fassett and John T. Warren SECTION I: Communication Education Chapter 1: Communication Education: An Association of Radicals - Ann Darling, Section Editor Chapter 2: The Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Communication Education - Keith Nainby Chapter 3: The Basic Course in Communication: Where Do We Go From Here? - Deanna D. Sellnow and Jason M. Martin Chapter 4: Communication Across the Curriculum Problematics and Possibilities: Standing at the Forefront of Educational Reform - Deanna P. Dannels Chapter 5: Communication and the Preparation of Future Faculty: Learning to Manage Incoherencies - Katherine Grace Hendrix Chapter 6: Communication Textbooks: From the Publisher to the Desk - Matt McGarrity Chapter 7: Learning through Service: The Contributions of Service Learning to the Communication Discipline - Jami L. Warren and Timothy L. Sellnow SECTION II: Instructional Communication Chapter 8: Instructional Comm...
This essay concerns the body’s positioning in discussions of teaching, specifically focusing on t... more This essay concerns the body’s positioning in discussions of teaching, specifically focusing on the authors’ efforts to trace discursive invocations of teachers’ bodies by students reflecting on the teaching vocation. The authors explore, through a series of intertwined autoethnographic narratives, the research process that led them through focus group data collection and analysis, to reflections on students’ metaphorical use of the “teacher’s body” in these focus groups, to (in light of feedback from anonymous reviewers) the role of the authors’ own teachers’ bodies in constituting this research and its implications.
One of Matt Groening's popular cartoons offers two different perspectives regarding the purpo... more One of Matt Groening's popular cartoons offers two different perspectives regarding the purpose and value of formal education in America: "Bongo's" belief that a good education must consist of an engaging classroom environment and proper emotional, intellectual, and structural resources; and "Bongo's" father's belief that a good education is a completed education. The way in which these two characters engage in discussions of education is not all that different from the ways in which student participants (two groups of students enrolled in an introductory speech communication course and two groups of graduate teaching assistants enlisted to teach the introductory communication course) in a study engaged such discussions, or even, for that matter, the way in which any set of two or more people might discuss educational issues. This paper seeks to illuminate the processes by which mundane understandings of educational success and failure may complic...
Loss and sacrifice are, on some level, sensations everyone knows. Such things make us feel like v... more Loss and sacrifice are, on some level, sensations everyone knows. Such things make us feel like victims, like we've given of ourselves more than we knew we could offer, more than we received in return, like we've given up something valuable and can't ever get it back. Inevitably, loss and sacrifice are also what most of us would identify as isolating events; we tend to see ourselves as living loss and sacrifice alone… [That said] loss, in many ways, is about gain…Loss and sacrifice, if they are to matter-if they are to have meaning-should be remembered, should be acknowledged, should be appreciated. (Fassett and Warren 139) John and I wrote the above insights about loss nearly ten years ago, knowing that we had already and would continue to live these lessons, but not in such a sudden and painful way. John's death at age 36 from advanced esophageal cancer was a surprise for us all-his family and friends, his colleagues and disciplinary community. This special issue o...
Preface Part I: First Principles 1. Communication: A Cultural Introduction 2. Communication and P... more Preface Part I: First Principles 1. Communication: A Cultural Introduction 2. Communication and Power: A Cultural History 3. Public Advocacy: Commitments and Responsibility Part II: Communication Processes and Skills 4. Compassionate Critical Listening 5. Groups and Alliances in Culture 6. Identity and Perception 7. Language and Culture Part III: Communication Contexts 8. Embodied Knowledge and Non-Verbal Communication 9. Language and Power in Our Cultural Lives 10. Interpersonal Relationships in Culture 11. Mediated Culture(s) 12. Communication as a Means of Social Action Glossary Index About the Authors
Introduction: Critical Communication Pedagogy - Deanna L. Fassett and John T. Warren SECTION I: C... more Introduction: Critical Communication Pedagogy - Deanna L. Fassett and John T. Warren SECTION I: Communication Education Chapter 1: Communication Education: An Association of Radicals - Ann Darling, Section Editor Chapter 2: The Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Communication Education - Keith Nainby Chapter 3: The Basic Course in Communication: Where Do We Go From Here? - Deanna D. Sellnow and Jason M. Martin Chapter 4: Communication Across the Curriculum Problematics and Possibilities: Standing at the Forefront of Educational Reform - Deanna P. Dannels Chapter 5: Communication and the Preparation of Future Faculty: Learning to Manage Incoherencies - Katherine Grace Hendrix Chapter 6: Communication Textbooks: From the Publisher to the Desk - Matt McGarrity Chapter 7: Learning through Service: The Contributions of Service Learning to the Communication Discipline - Jami L. Warren and Timothy L. Sellnow SECTION II: Instructional Communication Chapter 8: Instructional Comm...
This essay concerns the body’s positioning in discussions of teaching, specifically focusing on t... more This essay concerns the body’s positioning in discussions of teaching, specifically focusing on the authors’ efforts to trace discursive invocations of teachers’ bodies by students reflecting on the teaching vocation. The authors explore, through a series of intertwined autoethnographic narratives, the research process that led them through focus group data collection and analysis, to reflections on students’ metaphorical use of the “teacher’s body” in these focus groups, to (in light of feedback from anonymous reviewers) the role of the authors’ own teachers’ bodies in constituting this research and its implications.
One of Matt Groening's popular cartoons offers two different perspectives regarding the purpo... more One of Matt Groening's popular cartoons offers two different perspectives regarding the purpose and value of formal education in America: "Bongo's" belief that a good education must consist of an engaging classroom environment and proper emotional, intellectual, and structural resources; and "Bongo's" father's belief that a good education is a completed education. The way in which these two characters engage in discussions of education is not all that different from the ways in which student participants (two groups of students enrolled in an introductory speech communication course and two groups of graduate teaching assistants enlisted to teach the introductory communication course) in a study engaged such discussions, or even, for that matter, the way in which any set of two or more people might discuss educational issues. This paper seeks to illuminate the processes by which mundane understandings of educational success and failure may complic...
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