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Mohan J. Dutta – Communication Education, 2024
In this essay, the author interrogates openings for decolonizing the pedagogy of health communication campaigns. In doing so, they will not rehash in this stimulus essay the current zeitgeist of health communication campaigns, which forms the dominant conceptual registers and shapes the teaching and practice of health communication campaigns.…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Health Education, Health Promotion, Decolonization
Tallapragada, Meghnaa – Communication Education, 2018
Recently, many scientists and science advocates have taken the responsibility to mobilize for the sake of science. With fake news or "alternative facts" on the rise, many scientists and science supporters are determined to protect the credibility of science and promote evidence-based policy-making. At the core of these mobilization…
Descriptors: Activism, Scientists, Access to Information, Communication Strategies
Waldeck, Jennifer H.; Weimer, Maryellen – Communication Education, 2017
College instructors use lecture and its current counterpoint--active learning--widely and often rely on both strategies, but the question of which best promotes student learning has become a debate that ignores the fact that learning can result from both. Students still listen to and learn from lectures. They pass exams, obtain degrees, and…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, College Instruction
Titsworth, Scott – Communication Education, 2017
In this response, Scott Titsworth analyzes similarities among the forum essays and then offers ideas for how instructional communication scholars might adopt greater situational awareness in research, theory, and application of their work. [Other essays in this forum include: (1) FORUM: Interpersonal Communication in Instructional Settings: The…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Classroom Communication, Communication Strategies, Teaching Methods
West, Mckay Steven; Martin, Matthew M. – Communication Education, 2019
Instructors use humor in the classroom in numerous ways, including behaving stupidly, offering impersonations, manipulating their nonverbals, telling a story, joke, or pun, and using a costume or prop. How students decode their instructors' use of humor impacts their feelings about the course and their instructors. In this study, we investigated…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Student Attitudes, Teacher Behavior
Goodboy, Alan K. – Communication Education, 2017
For decades, instructional communication scholars have relied predominantly on cross-sectional survey methods to generate empirical associations between effective teaching and student learning. These studies typically correlate students' perceptions of their instructor's teaching behaviors with subjective self-report assessments of their own…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Communication Strategies, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Seeger, Matthew W. – Communication Education, 2018
The six essays published in this issue all seek to extend principles of communication and instruction. They share an instrumental view of communication as a way to address problems and deficiencies and simultaneously position instructional communication research squarely within larger organizational and professional communication contexts. In…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Communication Strategies, Research, Teaching Methods
Vangelisti, Anita L. – Communication Education, 2016
Anita Vangelisti writes in this response that although the recommendations set forward in this "Forum" are well thought out and important additions to the discussion, teacher-scholars in the field of communication can, and should, do more. She agrees that there is a need to identify and describe learning outcomes in communication, and…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Outcomes of Education, Citizen Participation, Communication Skills
Herbeck, Dale A. – Communication Education, 2018
Heated battles over free speech have erupted on college campuses across the United States in recent months. Some of the most prominent incidents involve efforts by students to prevent public appearances by speakers espousing controversial viewpoints. Efforts to silence offensive speakers on college campuses are not new; in these endeavors, one can…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, School Policy, Social Bias, Social Attitudes
Waltman, Michael S. – Communication Education, 2018
Whereas hate is defined as extreme negative feelings for others because of some aspect of their identity (Perry, 2001; Waltman & Haas, 2011), hate speech is discourse devoted to the vilification of the other's identity (Waltman, 2015; Waltman & Mattheis, 2017). It is an attempt to vandalize the other's identity to such an extent that the…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Bias, Negative Attitudes
Dannels, Deanna P.; Toale, Mary C.; Backlund, Philip M.; Frederick, John G. M.; Love, Brad – Communication Education, 2016
Could teacher communication behaviors generally assumed to be positive ever be detrimental to student realization of particular outcomes? This essay argues for increased scholarly attention to this question. The authors advocate a research agenda that explores the potential "downside" of teacher communication behaviors (TCBs);…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Outcomes of Education, Communication Strategies, Teacher Effectiveness
Kerssen-Griep, Jeff; Witt, Paul L. – Communication Education, 2015
Mentoring is a trusting, developmental supervisory relationship whose success largely depends on participants' interpersonal abilities. Feedback interventions with mentees commonly present interactional challenges to maintaining that relationship, yet are integral to any teaching-learning context. In this study we examined whether and how two key,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Mentors, Intervention, Teaching Methods
Menegatos, Lisa; Lederman, Linda C.; Hess, Aaron – Communication Education, 2010
LET'S TALK ABOUT IT (LTAI) (Lederman, Stewart, Bates, Greenberg, LeGreco, & Schuwerk, 2007), a scenario-based alcohol prevention simulation, has been used in a curriculum infusion design to promote healthy alcohol-related decision making among college students. Its use offers a unique research opportunity to explore students' beliefs and talk…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Communication Problems, Alcohol Abuse, Decision Making
Morreale, Sherwyn P.; Worley, David W.; Hugenberg, Barbara – Communication Education, 2010
This eighth in a series of surveys of the basic communication course, begun in 1968, has as its purpose to gather longitudinal and descriptive data on the nature of the course. The latest study differs from past studies in that some of the results are presented comparatively for two-year and four-year colleges and universities. Samples for both…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Distance Education, Teaching Methods, Communication Strategies
Thompson, Blair – Communication Education, 2007
This interpretive study explored the communicative strategies teachers employ when constructing and presenting course syllabi to overcome challenges teachers face surrounding the syllabus. Data included 13 classroom observations, 19 teacher interviews, and document analysis of the instructors' syllabi. Communication strategies teachers used to…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Communication Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Qualitative Research