This unique volume brings together original essays by well-known mass communication experts--master teachers--who provide practical information on teaching the communication and journalism courses in which they specialize. Its contributors include eminent specialists such as Maurine H. Beasley, who offers advice to teachers of media history; Dan Nimmo (political communication); Roy L. Moore (media law); Jay Black (media ethics); and John De Mott (media management). Chapter authors suggest course outlines, teaching strategies, and methods of testing, and provide reviews of current texts and supplementary materials such as films and other audio-visual aids.
In an era characterized by the rapid evolution of the concept of literacy, this handbook focuses on multiple ways in which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. It explores the possibilities of broadening current conceptualizations of literacy to include the full array of the communicative arts.
This textbook provides a useful framework for helping new and experienced teachers manage the communication challenges of today's classroom. Challenges that teachers face include the growing diversity of the student body, the impact on gender and classroom communication, the increasing numbers of students being educated in regular education classrooms annually, and students with learning disabilities. Authors Robert G. Powell and Dana Caseau believe it is important to challenge teachers to reflect on the ways their personal cultures influence their expectations about appropriate classroom communication and ways to demonstrate learning. Drawing from the fields of communication and education, Powell and Caseau provide theoretical models and useful strategies for the improvement of instructional practices. This textbook is distinctive in its integration of information from a variety of sources to fashion a viewpoint that focuses on special needs of the individual learner. Much of the information shared in this,text derives from the authors' own action research experiences in schools and from reading the experiences of others, including many teachers, parents, and children. Their experiences, combined with the cross-disciplinary approach, produce a volume of unique perspectives and considerable insight. Students and teachers in the communication and education disciplines will find this text to be a practical and invaluable tool for classroom teaching.
Providing a thorough review and synthesis of work on communication skills and skill enhancement, this Handbook serves as a comprehensive and contemporary survey of theory and research on social interaction skills. Editors John O. Greene and Brant R. Burleson have brought together preeminent researchers and writers to contribute to this volume, establishing a foundation on which future study and research will build. The Handbook chapters are organized into five major units: general theoretical and methodological issues (models of skill acquisition, methods of skill assessment); fundamental interaction skills (both transfunctional and transcontextual); function-focused skills (informing, persuading, supporting); skills used in management of diverse personal relationships (friendships, romances, marriages); and skills used in varied venues of public and professional life (managing leading, teaching). Distinctive features of this Handbook include: broad, comprehensive treatment of work on social interaction skills and skill acquisition; up-to-date reviews of research in each area; and emphasis on empirically supported strategies for developing and enhancing specific skills. Researchers in communication studies, psychology, family studies, business management, and related areas find this volume a comprehensive, authoritative source on communications skills and their enhancement, and it is essential reading for scholars and students across the spectrum of disciplines studying social interaction.