Overview

This volume establishes critical interpersonal and family communication pedagogy (CIFCP) as a distinct academic area of inquiry, highlighting the intersections of identity, power, culture, pedagogy, and interpersonal and family communication concepts, theories, and methods. This practical, theoretical, and aspirational collection by interpersonal and family communication (IPFC) scholars and teachers shines a spotlight on, through a diversity of methods, some of the ways that power both emanates within the classroom and informs intellectual instruction. Providing examples that connect critical theories and concepts with topics common in IPFC classrooms, such as conflict, relational tension, disclosure, listening, and family dynamics, the book illustrates how critical concepts can be uniquely addressed and unpacked in IPFC classrooms through a variety of assignments, teaching activities, and discussion prompts, and promotes and normalizes the ongoing reflexive practices of IPFC instructors. This book will interest academics and upper-level students working in the areas of Critical Methodology, Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication, and Relationship Science.

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Author:   Mick B. Brewer (Lincoln University, USA) ,  Sandra L. Faulkner (Bowling Green State University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781032460338

ISBN 10:   1032460334
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   20 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Section One. Activating the Bridgework: Coupling Interpersonal and Family Communication Research with Criticality. Chapter 1: Towards a Pedagogy of Suspicion: Inaugurating the Promising Entanglement of CIFC and Critical Communication Pedagogy Chapter 2: Cultivating Change: An Introduction and Invitation to Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication Pedagogy Chapter 3: On Being Sex Affirming: Advocating Progressive Sexual Ideals and Practices Chapter 4: (Re)Introducing Graduate Interpersonal Communication: Reifying new traditions through attending to who is next Chapter 5: Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication Pedagogy: Reflecting, Questioning, and Re-Constructing Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality in the Classroom Chapter 6: A Critical Race Counterstory of Teaching and Learning Interpersonal and Family Communication Chapter 7: Challenging Dualisms in CIFC Traditions: Journeys to Critical Praxis Section Two: Praxiological Criticality: Applying the CIFC Framework in the Classroom. Chapter 8: Crystalizing, Quilting, and Running for Queen and Community: Practicing Anti-Transcarceral Grief Pedagogy Following a Loss by Suicide Chapter 9: Intergenerational Connections: An online community engagement project Chapter 10: Cultivating Empathy and Transformation at the Intersections: A CIFC Teaching Activity Chapter 11: #Thatsfamily: Interrogating Family Discourses and Politics Through Social Media Chapter 12: Transforming the Paradigm of Aging: Community Engaged Learning and Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication Pedagogy Chapter 13: Disrupting Master Narratives Through Intersectional Reflexivity in the Interpersonal Communication Classroom Section Three: Ruminations from the Front Lines: Reflecting on and Confronting Power in and Around the IFC Classroom. Chapter 14: Performing Female: Using Communication Accommodation Theory to Critically Interrogate Gender Identity Salience in Classroom Encounters Chapter 15: Life in the Learning Zone: Student Engagement Through a Pedagogy of the Taboo Chapter 16: “It's All in the Family”: BIPOC Professors, Critical Interpersonal Family Communication (CIFC), and Students’ Personal Histories in the Diversity Classroom Chapter 17: Reconciling Difficult Classroom Conversations with Reflexivity, Dialogue, and Vulnerability

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Mick B. Brewer (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Lincoln University of Missouri. His research is situated within the critical tradition and spans various communication subfields including interpersonal communication, critical media studies, sexuality studies, and communication education, and has been published in multiple edited volumes and academic journals including Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication, Culture, & Critique, and Sexuality & Culture. Sandra L. Faulkner (Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University) is Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University where she writes, teaches, and researches about close relationships. Faulkner’s interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, inclusive pedagogy, and critical perspectives on interpersonal and family communication. She engages in community-based research focusing on aging and communication across the life course and uses poetry as a form of social justice and activism.

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Mick B. Brewer (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Lincoln University of Missouri. His research is situated within the critical tradition and spans various communication subfields including interpersonal communication, critical media studies, sexuality studies, and communication education, and has been published in multiple edited volumes and academic journals including Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication, Culture, & Critique, and Sexuality & Culture. Sandra L. Faulkner (Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University) is Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University where she writes, teaches, and researches about close relationships. Faulkner’s interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, inclusive pedagogy, and critical perspectives on interpersonal and family communication. She engages in community-based research focusing on aging and communication across the life course and uses poetry as a form of social justice and activism. Faulkner is Editor of Communication Studies (2025-2027)

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