ERIC Number: EJ1269416
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Publication Date: 2019
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Analyzing Communication Center Training through the Lens of Foucault
Moss, Troy
Communication Center Journal, v5 n1 p175-177 2019
Power is a complicated and uncomfortable topic that affects everyone to varying degrees. A traditional view of power would be a force that someone wields over others. However, Michel Foucault's view of power turns it into a relationship between two or more individuals that becomes quite liberating (1994). Through power-relationships, freedom of choice is created. His view exists beyond mere philosophy and can be applied everywhere in life; the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) Communication Center training course is no different. The UNCG Communication Center training course has the goal of training junior consultants (trainees) into senior consultants and gives them the ability to help other students create and reform presentations, no matter what stage of the speechmaking process they may be on, through the means of feedback. The UNCG Communication Center mirrors Foucault's concepts of power and freedom in training which creates a self-reliance in the trainees that other communication centers should utilize.
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Communication Skills, Power Structure, Universities, Speech Communication, Feedback (Response), Decision Making, Consultants, Freedom, Course Descriptions
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: North Carolina (Greensboro)
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