Human Dialogue

Welcome

Selves & Others

Learning from our differences. Sharing meanings with each other.

communication Julia T. Wood (2004) a fluctuating, unpredictable, multivocal process in which uncertainty infuses encounters between people and what they mean and become

Communication

Reflection & Action

Reflecting and acting upon our world.

learning Paulo Freire asking "why" about our world

Consciousness

An Act Of Relating

Learning how to respond to one another.

consciousness Mikhail Bakhtin an ongoing, situated act of relating _________________________ answerability to others empathy for others' experiences a return to one's outsideness _________________________

Rights Equality

Resilience

Communicating in and through an often uncertain world.

___________________________ Communication For Social Change Worldviews Resilience ___________________________

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

Worldviews

Haves & Have Nots

Individuals make choices based on what is communicated to them, what they value, what they want, and what they can do.

worldviews Kenneth Burke a way of seeing is also a way of not seeing

Communication

Diversity & Inclusion

Communication offers us possibilities to understand and address diversity, inequality, and inclusion as ideological and structural issues that we can respond to in our practices, discourses, and systems.

Resilience

Stability & Change

Challenging the ideologies and structures that impose absolutes onto our social realities.

Social Change

A Participatory Process

relies on people to endure The Honourable Vida Yeboa (2006) to advocate for the change that will benefit them, to work through their differences, to come together and form social movements in order to demand their rights

Justice Journals

Identities

Selves develop in and through communication with others.

________________________ Interpersonal Communication Identities-Based Approaches Human Perception AutoEthnography ________________________

interpersonal needs William Schutz (1966) we create and sustain relationships to meet three basic needs: love-affection, inclusion, and influence-control.

Interdependence

Selves & Others

What has been defined, appraised, scripted, attached, ascribed, and/or generalized in our relationships with others and our world?

Human Perception

An Active Process

Communication offers us frameworks and processes to expand what we notice, how we organize our relationships with others, and the ways we interpret our world.

Identities

Centers & Margins

What has been psychologically sealed? What has been institutionally ascribed? What are the discretions?

Communication

Standpoints & Locations

Communication offers us possibilities to expand in our experiences of identities across the continuum of personal growth, performances, relationships, and communities.

interpersonal communication Julia T. Wood (2020) a selective, systemic process that allows people to reflect and build personal knowledge of one another and create shared meanings