Full Description
Tough topics are inescapable for journalism and mass communication academics. If it's in the news, journalism and mass communication instructors have to discuss it in class. In Testing Tolerance, Candi Carter Olson and Tracy Everbach of the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women bring together a broad range of perspectives, from graduate students to deans, in conversation about ways to address tough topics in and out of the university classroom.
Helping instructors navigate today's toughest topics through discussions of the issues and pertinent terminology, this book provides hands-on exercises and practical advice applicable across student and instructor levels and disciplines. Readers will gain an understanding of the issues and acquire tools to address these topics in sensitive, yet forthright, ways.
Contents
1. Introduction: Testing Tolerance in the Classroom
Tracy Everbach & Candi Carter Olson
PART I: Confronting Tough Topics
2. Walking With Our Students: Turning Theory-based Courses Into Hands-on Media Production Opportunities
Candi Carter Olson
3. Taking Heat: Navigating Diversity and Confrontation in the Classroom
Tracy Everbach
4. Making the Invisible Valuable: Strategies for Translating Work at the Margins
Meredith Clark
5. Pedagogy of the Stressed: Mental Health in the Mass Communication Classroom and on Campuses
Chelsea Reynolds
6. Being a Female Public Intellectual in the Age of Social Media: Navigating Backlash, Mansplainers, and Trolls
Rebecca Hains
7. A Communication Unit Administrator's Perspective on Speech Controversies in the Classroom and on Campus
David Perlmutter
PART II: Fostering Tolerance
8. Flipping the Script: Difficult Dialogues and Blended Learning for Traditional and Online Journalism Courses
Marquita Smith & Mia Moody Ramirez
9. Confronting "Bro Culture" in the Sports Journalism Classroom
Steve Fox
10. Conflicted: Student Media Advisors, Sexual Assault Coverage, and Mandatory Reporting Under Title IX
Meg Heckman
11. #NAJAEverywhere: "I" in Indigenous (People) is Capitalized
Victoria LaPoe, Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton, & Rebecca Landsberry
12. Wait...Hold on...Just let me explain this to you...
Laura Castañeda
13. Graduate Student Instructors: Tackling Tough Topics for the First Time
Khadijah Ejaz
14. An Intersectional LGBTQ+ Pop Culture Approach to Critical Pedagogy
Nathian Rodriguez
15. Exploring Intersectional Approaches to Pedagogy
Paromita Pain
16. Conclusion: Recommendations and Class Resources
Candi Carter Olson & Tracy Everbach
