Rearticulating the Vocation of Communication Professor: Discourses of Stability and Change

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

Stability and change face communication educators today. Our discipline serves as a prime exemplar of education based on theory-informed action, or praxis, of which service learning is one manifestation. A praxis understanding of a communication education invites communication professors to engage the “work” of this craft and pass it to a new generation. Leisure can be engaged outside the renewal for continued labor in the service of the human community through the educational enterprise.

Sub Unit

• Undergraduate College and University Section

Chair

• S. Alyssa Groom, Duquesne University

Individual Presentations

• Education for Praxis: Communication As Exemplar Discipline - Janie Harden Fritz, Duquesne University

• A Communicative Praxis Approach to Service Learning - Leeanne Bell, Stevenson University

• Labor, Craft, and the Task of the Professional Educator - Ronald Arnett, Duquesne University

• Enriching Classroom Experience: Leisure Outside of the Classroom - Annette Holba, Plymouth State Univ

Session Organizer

• Janie Harden Fritz, Duquesne University