Full Description
This volume establishes critical interpersonal and family communication pedagogy (CIFCP) as a distinct academic area of inquiry, highlighting the intersections of identity, power, culture, pedagogy, and interpersonal and family communication concepts, theories, and methods.
This practical, theoretical, and aspirational collection by interpersonal and family communication (IPFC) scholars and teachers shines a spotlight on, through a diversity of methods, some of the ways that power both emanates within the classroom and informs intellectual instruction. Providing examples that connect critical theories and concepts with topics common in IPFC classrooms, such as conflict, relational tension, disclosure, listening, and family dynamics, the book illustrates how critical concepts can be uniquely addressed and unpacked in IPFC classrooms through a variety of assignments, teaching activities, and discussion prompts, and promotes and normalizes the ongoing reflexive practices of IPFC instructors.
This book will interest academics and upper-level students working in the areas of Critical Methodology, Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication, and Relationship Science.
Contents
Introduction
Section One. Activating the Bridgework: Coupling Interpersonal and Family Communication Research with Criticality.
Chapter 1: Towards a Pedagogy of Suspicion: Inaugurating the Promising Entanglement of CIFC and Critical Communication Pedagogy
Chapter 2: Cultivating Change: An Introduction and Invitation to Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication Pedagogy
Chapter 3: On Being Sex Affirming: Advocating Progressive Sexual Ideals and Practices
Chapter 4: (Re)Introducing Graduate Interpersonal Communication: Reifying new traditions through attending to who is next
Chapter 5: Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication Pedagogy: Reflecting, Questioning, and Re-Constructing Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality in the Classroom
Chapter 6: A Critical Race Counterstory of Teaching and Learning Interpersonal and Family Communication
Chapter 7: Challenging Dualisms in CIFC Traditions: Journeys to Critical Praxis
Section Two: Praxiological Criticality: Applying the CIFC Framework in the Classroom.
Chapter 8: Crystalizing, Quilting, and Running for Queen and Community: Practicing Anti-Transcarceral Grief Pedagogy Following a Loss by Suicide
Chapter 9: Intergenerational Connections: An online community engagement project
Chapter 10: Cultivating Empathy and Transformation at the Intersections: A CIFC Teaching Activity
Chapter 11: #Thatsfamily: Interrogating Family Discourses and Politics Through Social Media
Chapter 12: Transforming the Paradigm of Aging: Community Engaged Learning and Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication Pedagogy
Chapter 13: Disrupting Master Narratives Through Intersectional Reflexivity in the Interpersonal Communication Classroom
Section Three: Ruminations from the Front Lines: Reflecting on and Confronting Power in and Around the IFC Classroom.
Chapter 14: Performing Female: Using Communication Accommodation Theory to Critically Interrogate Gender Identity Salience in Classroom Encounters
Chapter 15: Life in the Learning Zone: Student Engagement Through a Pedagogy of the Taboo
Chapter 16: "It's All in the Family": BIPOC Professors, Critical Interpersonal Family Communication (CIFC), and Students' Personal Histories in the Diversity Classroom
Chapter 17: Reconciling Difficult Classroom Conversations with Reflexivity, Dialogue, and Vulnerability
