Pedagogical Stability and Change: Teaching Elocution in the 21st Century Communication Classroom

• In Event: G.I.F.T.S. Session II

Abstract

This activity introduces students to elocution theories and practices in the contemporary pedagogical efforts to not only teach students about the contours of our disciplinary history, but also how elocution might inform our present day communicative practices. It has three movements. First is a discussion of elocution, then a poetry reading using lessons from elocution, then a de-briefing regarding the relevance of elocution theory and practice for the 21st-Century classroom.

Author

• Jason Munsell, Columbia College