Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies: Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education: Andrew Sutherland: Lexington Books

Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies

Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education

Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies

Narratives from the Classroom and Higher Education

Description

This book examines the ways in which faculty and staff at the higher education level teach and communicate with their millennial students and colleagues. The contributors address how millennials' academic and non-academic interests and everyday performances within and outside of higher education influence how faculty and staff communicate with them. This book delves into how millennials can become more adaptable in their communication with others in society especially in higher education, be it from different generations, or cultures that may or may not communicate the way they do. The contributors argue that millennial culture should be carefully studied by instructors, researchers, and administrators to create a better classroom and educational experience and also improve the level of communication among these constituencies.

Introduction

Section 1: Theorizing Pedagogies of Millennial Generation

Chapter 1: Resisting the Influence of Neoliberalism on Millennial Faculty through Critical Communication Pedagogy and Critical Mentoring
Chapter 2: Let Your Self in: Mentoring from/on the Margins of Academia in the Millennial Context
Chapter 3: Academic Allies and Millennial Voices for Democratic Practice
Chapter 4: Millennial Culture and Communication Pedagogies: Mentoring Millennial Faculty for Success
Chapter 5: Communication with Millennials: Developing a Critical Consciousness and Pedagogy
Chapter 6: “An Eye Is an Eye Makes the World Colorblind”: Teaching Millennials How to Get W.O.K.E.
Chapter 7: Diversity in Millennial Generation: Diversifying Pedagogical Approaches

Section 2: Millennial Generation and Pedagogies in Action

Chapter 8: Using Rhetorical/Relational Goal Theory to Examine Millennial Students’ Academic and Relational Needs
Chapter 9: A Rhetorical Approach to Teaching and Mentoring Millennials in the Classroom
Chapter 10: Using Client Projects to Enhance Millennial Students’ Problem-Solving Skills
Chapter 11: Technology Consumption: Implications for Teaching and Learning
Chapter 12: Beyond Distraction: Using Technology to Support Communication Skills Development for Urban-Educated Millennials
Chapter 13: Digital Natives: Teaching Both Mediated and Face to Face Communication Skills in the College Classroom
Chapter 14: Small Talk is Big Talk: Guiding Millennial College Students to the Richest Form of Communication

Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors

Product details

Published	Nov 15 2018
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	286
ISBN	9781498550642
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	7 b/w photos
Dimensions	236 x 159 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Andrew Sutherland

Author

Michael G. Strawser

Anthology Editor

Ahmet Atay

Ahmet Atay is Professor of Global Media and Commun…

Anthology Editor

Mary Z. Ashlock

Contributor

Ahmet Atay

Ahmet Atay is Professor of Global Media and Commun…

Contributor

Mary Z. Ashlock

Contributor

Raymond Blanton

Contributor

Anne B. Bucalos

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Jennifer J. Calvert

Contributor

Rod Carveth

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Yea-Wen Chen

Contributor

Mark Congdon Jr.

Contributor

Laura Dorsey-Elson

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Craig L. Engstrom

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Anthony Esposito

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Kathryn T. Garlitz

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Liliana (Lily) Herakova

Contributor

Spoma Jovanovic

Contributor

David H. Kahl Jr.

Contributor

Baruti Kopano

Contributor

Stephen M. Kromka

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Brandi Lawless

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Phyllis McCluskey-Titus

Contributor

L. Adam Mekler

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Marjorie A. Miller

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Scott A. Myers

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Andrew L. Nicholson

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Elizabeth A. Petre

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James T. Petre

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Ronald Raymond

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Michelle Rodems

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Vincent Russell

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Matthew J. Thomas

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A. J. Verdelle

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Diane Waryold

Building from the premise that the Millennial Generation has experienced unprecedented global change, the essays in Millennial Generation and Pedagogy brilliantly complicate our understandings of this population of students, some of whom are now emerging faculty. Authors write from their personal experience of being a Millennial or having taught Millennial students. Anyone who has a stake in developing an intersectional approach to teaching and mentoring must read this book.

Alberto González, Bowling Green State University
This is an insightful and useful collection of essays that productively engage and apply communication theory to better understand and engage millennials--as students and as colleagues. When it is so easy to shore up stereotypes about this generation, these scholars take millennials seriously as meaningful participants in teaching and learning, as people constituted in enduring and complex cultural relationships who are capable of agency and action. Readers who are researchers will find avenues for continued and increasingly nuanced investigation; readers who are teachers will find paths forward in mutual understanding and dialogue; and readers who are students will find themselves better prepared to engage in conversations about (and resist mischaracterizations of) who they are and can become in the world.

Deanna L. Fassett, San José State University