The SAGE Handbook of Communication and Instruction (Sage Handbooks) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412970873 ISBN 13: 9781412970877

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2010

Synopsis

As the only multi-paradigmatic collection of research in the field, this Handbook brings together a comprehensive range of essays to serve as a fully inclusive resource. Deanna L. Fassett and John T. Warren, along with two section editors and twenty-nine additional contributors, provide a balanced overview of various paradigms in the field―social scientific, interpretive, and critical.

Key Features

• Three sections, addressing overlapping issues in communication and instruction, collectively represent multiple paradigms. This allows the reader to experience the depth and nuance available in communications studies.
• Each perspective is granted its own foundational chapter to provide an orientation to the discipline.
• Each contributor sets the agenda for their approach, helping the reader identify where the field is headed and where future research might be beneficial.
• Besides reviews of extant literature, demonstrating where the field has been, this Handbook also includes chapters that share topical new findings.

About this title

About the Author

Deanna L. Fassett is Department Chair and professor of communication pedagogy at San José State University where she has, since 2002, mentored her department’s graduate student instructors.  She is the author and editor of three other books:  Coordinating the Communication Course:  A Guidebook, Critical Communication Pedagogy, The SAGE Handbook of Communication and Instruction, and Communication: A Critical/Cultural Introduction, Second Edition. Her published research has appeared in a broad array of communication studies journals, including Basic Communication Course Annual, Communication Education, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, and Text and Performance Quarterly.

John T. Warren (Late) was professor of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His major research and teaching centered in Communication Pedagogy, Performance Studies, and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. He was the author of numerous books including Performing Purity: Whiteness, Pedagogy and the Reconstitution of Power; Casting Gender: Women and Performance in Intercultural Contexts; Critical Communication Pedagogy; and the SAGE Handbook of Communication and Instruction. He also authored articles for several education and communication studies journals, including Educational Theory, Communication Education, and Text and Performance Quarterly.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1412970873
• ISBN 13: 9781412970877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: Fassett Deanna L., Warren John T.