Education for Praxis: Communication As Exemplar Discipline

• In Event: Rearticulating the Vocation of Communication Professor: Discourses of Stability and Change

Abstract

The discipline of communication is uniquely positioned to offer the best of liberal arts and professional education. With roots in ancient rhetoric, contemporary social science, and interpretive and critical theory and a focus on action in the real world, a communication education is poised to shape leaders in a moment calling for public engagement in marketplace and community settings. With its active commitment to ideas in action, communication is the “praxis” discipline par excellence.

Author

• Janie Harden Fritz, Duquesne University