A communication field-centered introduction to college classroom and social pedagogy in its institutional, historical, and cultural contexts with an eye toward combining theory and action into a coherent and ethical praxis. What does teaching communication entail and what does it mean, and for whom? How do institutional and curricular contingencies shape the cultural field that presents itself to beginning instructors? How do hegemonic formations structure that field and the range of possibilities it offers for progressive criticism of it? What is the role of social difference in education as a resource for "dismantling the master's house." To what degree is the classroom a site of collaboratve intellectual production in its own right that can challenge more traditional modes of scholarship? Bourdieu, Freire, hooks, Gramsci, Ranciere, and Giroux, are only a few of the thinkers from within the cultural studies tradition who will be called upon to answer these crucial questions of communication pedgaogy, based on real-life examples drawn from today's undergraduate communication classroom.
Number of Credits
3
Ronald J. Zboray