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How to Gain Cultural Proficiency and Accommodate Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students in Communication Centers
Get PDFIn “How to Gain Cultural Proficiency and Accommodate Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Students in Communication Centers” the author explores how Communication Centers can better act as a site of intervention for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming students. Karim & Ross’ chapter “Enhancing Cultural Proficiency” in Students Helping Students: A Guide for Peer Educators on College Campuses is referenced as the ground work for how to engage in cultural understanding and cultural accommodating behavior. Through examining Karim & Ross’ idea of cultural proficiency, the author explores ways for communication centers to gain in cultural awareness, cultural fluency, and culturally tolerance. These steps towards cultural proficiency include, education for student staff and faculty, administrative practices catered towards student selected self-disclosure, and lastly communication center goals related to the success of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming students, whether or not student staff or faculty are directly impacted by the issues Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming students face. This research was completed in hopes that positive strides towards the safety, productivity, success, and intervention of Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming within college campus and communication centers alike.
Beyond Audacity: Supporting Sonic Futures through the Digital Audio Workstation
Get PDFThe article suggests that the non-destructive editing features of the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) can be useful for communication centers and for the support of multimodal assignments because they can promote greater attention to sound. The turn to the DAW is situated in a tradition of embracing sonic technologies for pedagogical purposes through analysis of the history of discussions of microphonic and recording technology in the Quarterly Journal of Speech. The author surveys available DAW software and cites experience using it at one center
What Would We Be Doing If We Weren't Doing This?: A Journey in Democratic Departmental Practice
Get PDFAlmost twenty-five years ago a small, liberal arts college began a journey into critical pedagogies, both in some classes and at the departmental level. Students and faculty engage in department work together--setting curriculum, assessing programs, planning events, and rotating chairing of meetings. We are attempting to engage in transformative leadership with each other, as we re-imagine what a truly radical, democratic department would look like
Sounding the Sacred Headwaters: Applied Ecomusicology as a Critical Pedagogy of Music
Get PDFEcomusicology and the critical pedagogy of music share a common concern for music and environment. Using social systems theory this paper draws out Freire’s pedagogy for critical consciousness—the practice of bringing immanent epistemologies into awareness—and its importance for critical ecological literacy in the new epoch of Anthropocene. This discussion is grounding in an applied ecomusicology project called Sounding the Sacred Headwaters that suggests a central place for Critical Multiliteracies Pedagogy (CMP) in a critical pedagogy of music.
Composing in Their Own Language: Feminist Pedagogy in Richard LaGravenese’s Freedom Writers
Get PDFThis paper explores Richard LaGravenese’s 2007 film adaptation of Erin Gruwell’s teaching memoir, The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. LaGravenese’s adaptation chronicles the challenges and triumphs Gruwell faces as she earns her disenfranchised students’ trust and respect both inside and outside of the classroom. Gruwell uses feminist pedagogical practices in order to transgress institutional practices that seek to silence her “Students’ Right to their Own Language.” My purpose in analyzing this particular popular culture text is to evaluate the specific teaching practices that identify Gruwell not only as a feminist pedagogue, but as an exemplary composition instructor. While a considerable amount of scholarship has analyzed the way educators are both positively and negatively portrayed in film, there has been no attempt to critically assess how feminist pedagogical practices work to challenge traditional educational ideologies in film. My analysis also seeks to identify and evaluate some of Gruwell’s exemplary teaching practices in order to analyze the ways in which feminist pedagogy might enhance other theoretical approaches and pedagogical practices in education.
Using Facebook to Promote a Virtual Learning Community: A Case Study
No full textThe use of social media by members of college campuses, including students, staff, and administrators, is on the rise and a growing body of research is examining such use. In this study, two graduate level courses that incorporated Facebook’s closed group feature into the course logistics are explored. It was found that using Facebook could promote a virtual student learning community. The students involved used the groups for sharing ideas and support, asking questions, and participating in discussions. This article provides a framework for using Facebook to develop a virtual student learning community
It Takes Three to Enhance: A Pilot Study of Collaboration in the Basic Course
Get PDFWhile instruction from the communication center and library has supported students and teaching for many years, we seek a more intentional collaboration between these support services and the basic communication course. This article follows a pilot case study performed to explore student perceptions of an in-class collaborative session designed to meet the needs of students in the basic communication course (BCC). Through a mixed- methods approach, basic course students and course instructors were surveyed to understand and explore the perceptions and possible outcomes of the project. The results suggest the importance of collaboration and in-class instruction, yielding future case-specific enhancements and generalizable suggestions and precautions for other universities and colleges
Reforming the Environment: The Influence of the Roundtable Classroom Design on Interactive Learning
Get PDFThis study investigated the influence of physical and virtual learning spaces on interactive learning in a college and university setting. Qualitative analysis of an undergraduate liberal arts program that employs the use of roundtable classrooms was conducted. Interview and focus group data from students and faculty, along with classroom observations, resulted in the finding that the roundtable classroom encouraged interactive learning, face-to-face accountability, and verbal immediacy, along with a “cohort effect” and “fidget factor.” Virtual learning spaces influenced interactive learning, and their effectiveness was heavily moderated by instructors and by the frequency and use of educational technology. Recommendations and suggestions for future research are provided