CoCompositions

Communication

Reflection & Action

Investigating the commonsense assumptions.

learning Paulo Freire asking "why" about our world

Intersubjective

Understanding & Knowledge

Challenging the institutional spaces that anoint emperors, tricksters, and queens to practice their discretion and collect their status all while offering out-dated, so-called knowledge.

knowledge production Mumby & Kuhn (2019) a highly contested, contingent, and ever-changing process

Cultures

Practices & Performances

Reflecting and acting upon our shared power.

culture Fassett, Warren, & Nainby (2018) assumptions that draw people together within a social context of shared power

A Critical Perspective

A Form Of Inquiry

Communication offers us frameworks and processes to question and challenge what we witness in our world.

________________________ How did it come to be this way? Who does it harm? Who does it benefit? ________________________

critical inquiry Fassett, Warren, & Nainby (2018) asking complicated questions and sorting through the implications of our (in)actions

Communication

Diversity & Inclusion

Expanding in our experiences of identities, relationships, and cultures.

the oppressed Paulo Freire the very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped