Critical Communication Pedagogy

by Deanna L. Fassett

• ISBN13: 9781412916264
• ISBN10: 1412916267
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-19
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

"One of the great strengths of the book is that it illustrates how critical pedagogy might actually look and feel and be useful as an organizing principle in an educator's life. The wonderful statements about empowering students, creating spaces for dialogue, and envisioning moments of empancipation are hard to translate into real institutional settings. The authors are willing to open up their own areas of vulnerability by describing their efforts to encact critical pedagogy and ten refelecting on their missteps, disappointments, and blind spots." a??Jo sprague, San Jos?? State University In this autoethnographic work, authors Deanna L. Fassett and John T. Warren illustrate a synthesis of critical pedagogy and instructional communication, as both a field of study and a teaching philosophy. Critical Communication Pedagogy is a poetic work that charts paradigmatic tensions in instructional communication research, articulates commitments underpinning critical communication pedagogy, and invites readers into self-reflection on their experiences as researchers, students, and teachers.A A Key Features : Uses autoethnography to explore critical communication pedagogy : Readers are encouraged to be self-reflective about their own teaching and learning. Through layered, storied accounts, the authors invite readers to explore how to engage in the study and teaching of communication as constitutive of social injustice. Identifies shifting paradigms in instructional communication : By using the authorsa?? own experiences as a focal point, they review paradigmatic shifts in the study of instructional communication. This book legitimizes a burgeoning conversation about critical approaches to instructional communication research, validating critical communication pedagogy as a growing line of research and an area of growth in teaching practice. Evaluates critical communication pedagogy scholarship : This is the first book to help scholars unfamiliar with this paradigm learn how to read and evaluate this sort of work. The book identifies the commitments that undergird critical work that addresses communication and education. Moments of successful and failed critical communication pedagogy in their research, in their classrooms, and in their relationships are explored. A Intended Audience : This is an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying instructional communication and communication pedagogy in courses such as Communication in the Classroom, Special Classroom Populations, Communication Needs of At-Risk Students, and Critical/Performative Pedagogy.A A

Table of Contents

Introduction: Stolen Moments in Critical Pedagogy and Communication	1	(12)
Book Goals	5	(5)
Organization of Our Book	10	(1)
Stealing Away From Here	11	(2)
Interlude: How to Read This Book (or, My Dad Read This Book)	13	(4)
Chapter 1. Critical Communication Pedagogy: Shifting Paradigms	17	(20)
You Think You're a Comm Ed Scholar?	19	(1)
Box Checked	19	(6)
Reading Freire for the First Time	25	(2)
Communication Intention, in Tension	27	(2)
Desire and Critique in Communication Education	29	(3)
Mentoring—Getting It, Right? Getting It Right	32	(3)
On Joining the Community	35	(2)
Chapter 2. Naming a Critical Communication Pedagogy	37	(24)
Implications: Living the Commitments of Critical Communication Pedagogy	56	(5)
Chapter 3. Critical Communication Pedagogy in the Classroom	61	(24)
Shaping and Taping: Reading Critical Communication Pedagogy Through Foucault	64	(5)
Just A(nother) Rehearsal: Reading Critical Communication Pedagogy Through Butler	69	(6)
Caught in the Current: Reading Critical Communication Pedagogy Through de Certeau	75	(8)
Reading Critical Communication Pedagogy	83	(2)
Chapter 4. Writing, Researching, and Living: Critical Communication Pedagogy as Reflexivity	85	(26)
Chapter 5. Compromise and Commitment: Critical Communication Pedagogy as Praxis	111	(22)
The Syllabus as Critical Intervention: Safely Vulnerable	112	(6)
Vic's Story: Resistance Languaged	118	(8)
Making the Tapes: Lost Translations	126	(3)
On Doing Critical Communication Pedagogy	129	(4)
Chapter 6. Nurturing Tension: Sustaining Hopeful Critical Communication Pedagogy	133	(22)
Remembering	135	(2)
Save the Crisis for the Holidays	137	(3)
Heroes	140	(3)
Keeping Honest	143	(4)
"The Time Is NOM," or "Freedom Isn't Free"	147	(3)
Subject: Help!	150	(5)
Conclusion: Grappling With Contradictions	155	(12)
Mentoring, in and Through the Critical Turnoff	155	(12)
Appendix	167	(20)
(Re)Constituting Ethnographic Identities	167	(20)
References	187	(8)
Index	195	(8)
About the Authors	203