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Teaching First-Year Communication Courses: Paradigms and Innovations book cover

1st Edition

Teaching First-Year Communication Courses Paradigms and Innovations

Edited By Pat Gehrke Copyright 2017
170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge
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In this book, eleven teacher-scholars of communication provide a robust study of the challenges and opportunities facing those who teach first-year communication courses. The first half of the volume offers paradigmatic analyses, including a survey of the ecology of the first-year course, a plea to integrate our first-year courses into our research agendas, a study of the gap between scholarship... Read more

Introduction Pat J. Gehrke

Part I: Paradigms for First-Year Communication Courses

1. Understanding the ecology of the public speaking course William M. Keith

2. Beyond basic: Developing our work in and through the introductory communication course Deanna L. Fassett

3. The gap between rhetorical education and civic discourse Craig Rood

4. The case for core competencies in introductory communication courses Isa N. Engleberg

5. An unsettled bookcase: A critical paradigmatic approach to connect theory and pedagogy Nicholas A. Zoffel

Part II: Innovations in Classroom Practice

6. Socially constructing learning space: Communication theory and pedagogy for social justice Juliane Mora

7. Team-based learning for the basic communication course: A transformative pedagogical approach Luke Lefebvre

8. Practices of response in public speaking: The transformation of revision techniques into oral feedback Jette Barnholdt Hansen

9. It’s not the same thing: Considering a path forward for teaching public speaking online Susan Ward

10. The value of literature in introducing performance studies Tracy Stephenson Shaffer

Epilogue: a manifesto for teaching public speaking Pat J. Gehrke

Biography

Pat J. Gehrke is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina, USA. He has two decades of experience in teaching communication, has directed first-year communication courses, and has conducted system-wide communication competency assessments. He publishes in the history of communication studies and communication ethics, including The Ethics and Politics of Speech (2009).

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