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The Importance, Significance, and Relevance of Communication: A Fourth Study of the Criticality of the Discipline's Content and Pedagogy
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Morreale, Sherwyn P.; Broeckelman-Post, Melissa A.; Anderson, Lindsey B.; Ledford, Victoria A.; Westwick, Joshua N. – Communication Education, 2023
The results of this study argue that communication, and specifically oral communication education, is critical to students' future personal and professional success. Similar to three earlier studies, thematic analysis of 2,155 articles, identified in academic and popular press publications extending from 2016 to 2020, provides support for the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Oral Language, Success, Literature Reviews
Plowing Into Drama
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Murphy, Katherine B. – Communication Education, 1977
Examines a creative drama project in which nine hundred junior high students participated in groups of fifty in a drama about regional history. (MH)
Descriptors: Creative Dramatics, Developmental Programs, Drama, Elementary Secondary Education
Beyond Reading and Writing to Communication Competence.
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Allen, R. R.; Wood, Barbara Sundene – Communication Education, 1978
Children should develop communication competencies related to a broad array of communication situations involving speaking and listening as well as reading and writing. Five functions of communication (controlling, sharing feelings, informing, ritualizing, and imagining) are offered as the communication focus of a language arts program. (JMF)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills
Moral Relativism on the Ropes.
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Gabler, Mel; Gabler, Norma – Communication Education, 1987
Finds that most current public school sex education programs and all values clarification programs are based on moral relativism and are intellectually indefensible because they are (1) methodologically defective, (2) present tautologies instead of values, (3) depend on circular reasoning, and (4) undemocratic. (NKA)
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Moral Issues