Continuing a Dialogue: Building a Research Paradigm toward Critical (Communication) Pedagogy

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

Last year in Chicago, we began a conversation: enacting critical communication pedagogy in our classrooms. In that discussion, we noted the importance of issues related to justice and democracy in our classrooms, and we talked about how we have been moved to action and how we “do” critical pedagogy in that space. We now would like to place a link in that bridge that gets us closer to a critical communication pedagogy research agenda.

Research in communication studies already has begun to explore the intersections of critical, feminist, and radical pedagogies. By further linking these pedagogies with instructional communication, communication education, and communication pedagogy, we can extend the knowledge of our discipline. We can answer questions, such as: Where is the “critical” in the disciplinary conversations surrounding education? How can communication scholars advance the study of critical pedagogy and cultural studies of/in education?

Thus, this round table brings together a variety of communication educators and scholars as an attempt to bridge that dialogue that began at last year’s conference with a research agenda to support that conversation. Hence, panelists will be discussing a variety of topics associated with the discourse of critical pedagogy. Because this topic relates to pedagogy, we believe it would be a good candidate for co-sponsorship with the Instructional Development Division.

Sub Unit

• Critical and Cultural Studies Division

Chair

• Christina Saindon, Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale

Presenters

• Leda Cooks, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Ann Darling, University of Utah

• Deanna Fassett, San Jose State University

• Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State Univ

• Richie Hao, University of Denver

• Elizabeth Leckie, University of Utah

• Karen Lovaas, San Francisco State Univ

• John Warren, Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale

• Christina Saindon, Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale