The Sage Handbook of Communication and Instruction

by Deanna L. Fassett

• ISBN13: 9781412970877
• ISBN10: 1412970873
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-18
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

The SAGE Handbook of Communication and Instruction functions as a comprehensive resource for scholars, graduate students, and general readers interested in the intersections of communication and instruction, irrespective of paradigm, method, or disciplinary background.Each chapter selection in the Handbook roots contemporary work in disciplinary foundations and identifies avenues for future inquiry.Features & Benefits:- Compiles original research and reviews of research in the intersections of communication and instruction from key figures in the disciplines, not only helping readers see present and future trajectories in this area of inquiry in foundational lines of research but also providing a sense of how this area has grown along a series of different theoretical and methodological approaches- Helps readers identify avenues for research, in consultation with both key figures and innovators in this area of inquiry- Serves as the primary contemporary and multi-paradigmatic guide to the study of the intersections of communication and instruction, recognizing all paradigmatic approaches and methods as meaningful.The Handbook will not only strengthen readers interest in and comfort with different paradigmatic approaches to communication and instruction, but also make possible a generation of well-rounded, comprehensive, and effective researchers, capable of reading a broad array of work from a variety of approaches

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Communication Education
Communication Education: An Association of Radicals	p. 3
The Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Communication Education	p. 11
The Basic Course in Communication: Where Do We Go From Here?	p. 33
Communication Across the Curriculum Problematics and Possibilities: Standing at the Forefront of Educational Reform	p. 55
Communication and the Preparation of Future Faculty: Learning to Manage Incoherencies	p. 81
Communication Textbooks: From the Publisher to the Desk	p. 107
Learning Through Service: The Contributions of Service Learning to the Communication Discipline	p. 129
Instructional Communication
Instructional Communication: The Emergence of a Field	p. 149
Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of Instructional Communication	p. 161
Power, Compliance, and Resistance in the Classroom	p. 181
Instructor Immediacy: Creating Conditions Conducive to Classroom Learning	p. 201
Humor and Communication in Instructional Contexts: Goal-Oriented Communication	p. 221
Clarity in Teaching and Learning: Conundrums, Consequences, and Opportunities	p. 241
The Relational Side of Instructional Communication: An Examination of Instructors' Presentational Communication Traits	p. 263
Critical Communication Pedagogy
Critical Communication Pedagogy: Reframing the Field	p. 283
The (Critical) Pedagogy of Communication and the (Critical) Communication of Pedagogy	p. 293
Critical/Performative/Pedagogy: Performing Possibility as a Rehearsal for Social Justice	p. 315
When Will We All Matter? Exploring Race, Pedagogy, and Sustained Hope for the Academy	p. 343
Critical Race Theory and Critical Communication Pedagogy	p. 361
Sexualities and Critical Communication Pedagogy	p. 385
Producing Digitally Mediated Environments as Sites for Critical Feminist Pedagogy	p. 411
Author Index	p. 437
Subject Index	p. 453
About the Contributors	p. 463
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