New Book: Teaching from the Heart: Critical Communication Pedagogy in the Communication Classroom

New Book: Teaching from the Heart: Critical Communication Pedagogy in the Communication Classroom

By C. Kyle Rudick, Kathryn Golsan, and Kyle Cheesewright

Teaching from the Heart uses an explicit social justice framework to introduce beginning instructors to communication classroom pedagogy. Readers learn the history, vocabulary, and skill set needed to work toward teaching and learning as humanizing acts and to value the experiences of both the teacher and the learner in classroom interactions.

Chapters include:

Chapter 1: Social Justice, Critical Communication Pedagogy, and the Communication Classroom

Chapter 2: Critical Frames for Communication Pedagogy

Chapter 3: Positioning/Orienting Toward the Communication Classroom

Chapter 4: Assessment and Power in the Communication Classroom

Chapter 5: Mentoring as an act of Love in the Communication Classroom

Chapter 6: Critical Dialogue and Pitfalls in the Communication Classroom

Chapter 7: Reflexivity: Chafing at our Limits in the Communication Classroom

Chapter 8: Social Justice Classroom Activities for the Communication Classroom

The book contains 16 competitively selected classroom activities from contributors: Jacquelyn D'Arcy, Erika Behrmann, Kevin Jones, Nick Chivers, Alison Lietzenmayer, David Palmer, Amy Aldridge Sanford, Kristopher Copeland, Leland Spencer, Julie Walker, Katie Marie Brunner, Bradley Wolf, Danielle De La Mare, Nancy Bressler, Lisa Hanasono, Sarah Riforgiate, Matt Foy, Nicholas Tatum, and Kody Frey.

For more information contact C. Kyle Rudick at ckylerudick@gmail.com or Cognella publishing at titles@cognella.com. The book will be available for Fall 2017 adoption.