Teaching Change by Changing Teaching: Introducing Participatory Methods of Teaching in Graduate and Undergraduate Seminars

• In Event: ICA Plenary Interactive Paper/Poster Session II
  In Interactive Paper Session: Instructional and Developmental Communication Poster Session

Abstract

If communication for social change advocates empowerment over exogenous agendas, then pedagogy in courses covering this material should reflect this. Students who experience the methods gain a deeper understanding of the approach and are themselves empowered as they embody their learning. Students in a graduate seminar on communication for social change experienced this in the classroom when the course pedagogy—which included active participation in empowering social change methods—aligned with the ideology being explored.

Authors

• Davi Kallman, Washington State University

• Joseph Hewa, Washington State U/Eastern Washington U