Full Description
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 and pedagogy within rhetoric, a proposal for seven core competencies to unify the various first-year communication courses, and an argument for a critical communication paradigm. The second half details innovations in classroom practice, such as the teaching techniques of social justice pedagogues, team-based learning as a model for the public speaking course, response and feedback techniques in teaching public speaking at the University of Copenhagen, teaching online speech as a new course focused on the unique challenges of digital communication, and the role of oral interpretation and performance classes in the first-year curriculum. Finally, this volume concludes with the editor's manifesto for teaching public speaking. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Review of Communication.
Contents
Introduction Part I: Paradigms for First-Year Communication Courses 1. Understanding the ecology of the public speaking course 2. Beyond basic: Developing our work in and through the introductory communication course 3. The gap between rhetorical education and civic discourse 4. The case for core competencies in introductory communication courses 5. An unsettled bookcase: A critical paradigmatic approach to connect theory and pedagogy Part II: Innovations in Classroom Practice 6. Socially constructing learning space: Communication theory and pedagogy for social justice 7. Team-based learning for the basic communication course: A transformative pedagogical approach 8. Practices of response in public speaking: The transformation of revision techniques into oral feedback 9. It's not the same thing: Considering a path forward for teaching public speaking online 10. The value of literature in introducing performance studies Epilogue: a manifesto for teaching public speaking
