Cassandra Book called on scholars to examine how communication was taught in K-12 classrooms. For nearly 30 years, scholars have expressed concern regarding the decline of K-12 communication scholarship (Hunt et al., 2014), argued for the importance of communication in K-12 teacher certification (Rudick & Dannels, 2020; Wright, 2020), and most…

This article calls for an emphasis on "public listening" within civic education as a means of confronting and reversing negative trends in American public discourse. After providing a working definition of "public listening," I offer the perspective that communication educators and "Communication Education" scholars…

The need for communication competence in the online environment has loomed large, made more apparent by the pandemic. Understandably, an immediate concern centers on instructors and their ability to deliver quality instruction. The authors have another educational mission, though, complementary in nature, involving the students. By designing and…

The dynamic nexus of communication, democracy, and education expressed in the classic liberal arts trivium--logic, grammar, and rhetoric--underscores the interdependent iterative connection between thinking, writing, speaking, and listening. As indicated in rhetoric's inclusion in the trivium, communication instruction, theory, and practice…

Whether online teaching is a challenge or an opportunity is the wrong question for us to ask and answer. Online teaching in myriad forms has been essential to teaching and learning--though to different degrees depending on the discipline, institution, student, and educator--for decades and will remain so. Though the authors of this article have…

America is deeply divided over issues like election fraud, COVID-19, and systematic racism. More concerning, Jenkins (2021) argues that the next few years could be marred by "death threats, attempted assassinations of political leaders, and other acts of terrorism" (para. 11). In addition, a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…

Due to the increase in online learning over the years, it is particularly important to understand how students can learn effectively in the digital space (Morrealeet al., 2021). The need for more online pedagogy research was made especially clear by the urgent shift to online learning during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in early 2020,…

This agenda-setting theory essay offers a collaborative response to Sprague, J. (1992). Expanding the research agenda for instructional communication: Raising some unasked questions. "Communication Education," 41(1), 1-25. https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1080/03634529209378867 early theorizing on critical approaches to communication pedagogy,…

The results of this study argue that communication, and specifically oral communication education, is critical to students' future personal and professional success. Similar to three earlier studies, thematic analysis of 2,155 articles, identified in academic and popular press publications extending from 2016 to 2020, provides support for the…

Based on the vast challenges college students experience, and the current mental health crisis on college campuses, the current study investigated how student-support providers assist and encourage students to enact resilience. We analyzed data from interviews with 25 campus student-support leaders in regard to how they support resilience in…

The purpose of the current investigation is to examine the self-reported messages and behaviors teachers enact to demonstrate their (in)authentic selves to students. Using a thematic analysis of open-ended survey responses from 51 collegiate instructors, results indicate that teachers demonstrate authenticity through "openness" and…

Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were initially adopted in 2010 and serve as high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy. The initiative has been met with mixed reviews. At the same time, the National Communication Association called for communication standards and competencies in K-12 education to enhance…

This critical communication pedagogy study consists of a cripistemological analysis of two prominent communication theory textbooks to better understand the nondisableist assumptions embedded within these textbooks and, by extension, our field's theories. Conceiving of the university classroom as an educational cultural performance, this study…

The creation of innovative and impactful communication theories depends on improving our theorizing practices. A grounded practical theory analysis of communication theory textbooks and exercises explored representations of theorizing and what it means for students to think like theorists. The analysis suggests that communication theory pedagogy…

The pandemic exposed fissures within higher education that many knew existed but did not actively acknowledge. The pandemic forced everybody to see them. It is known that higher education privileges wealthy students, even before new students step on campus (Jaschik, 2019). Students' mental health is suffering as a result of the pandemic (Zhai…