Lead Learners

Welcome

Frameworks & Processes

Willingness to risk change in our perspectives of selves, others, and the world we inhabit together. Acting upon the lack of communication in our lives, relationships, and communities.

_________________ Contexts Competing Arguments Informed Choices _________________

communication Mumby & Kuhn (2019) the dynamic, ongoing process of creating and negotiating meanings

Intersubjective

Understanding & Knowledge

The critique of monologue. This is why communication is important.

_________________________ What has been psychologized? What has been institutionalized? Who has been granted status? _________________________

Forms Of Discipline

Consent & Dissent

We must remain silent when the emperor comes around. We must not speak of the taken for granted or his discretion. Do not, under any circumstances, ask questions. We may have to turn on each other.

an ideology Chomsky & Robinson (2024) the belief that their domination is for the good of the dominated

Neoliberalism

Moral Principles & Rules Of Law

Our economic and political system has been designed to diminish the safety nets, social fabrics, and human rights that are central to resilient, sustainable communities. This is because a horrendous amount of special interest money has been infused into both political parties to determine U.S. policies, institutional priorities, and unprecedented protection of elite interests.

subjugation Stephen Porges bodies-minds conform to institutional forms

A Narrow Ridge

Practices

Understanding where we are positioned and how we are persuaded in our world.

_________________ Communication Ethics Rhetorical Approaches Strategic Ambiguity Political Systems _________________

a right to exist Martin Buber If one of the parties in discourse does not agree on the value of conversation or even on the right of the other party to exist, there is little opportunity for shared learning. In such cases, dialogue is simply not possible.

Forms Of Knowledge

The Basic Assumptions

Often our suffering searches for answers in "private" psychological and/or institutional spaces where emperors, tricksters, and anointed queens can be found wandering the halls, collecting their status, and practicing their discretion while offering out-dated, so-called knowledge. They're afraid of the public. Yet, it's the public they serve.

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

The "Good"

Private & Public

Communication ethics focuses on moving conversations about the assumptions of good from a private holding to publicly shared mappings.

the learner Arnett, Harden-Fritz, & Bell-McManus (2018) one who meets difference without forgetting the limits of one's own situation and particular commitments to the good

Debate

Positions & Persuasions

Our understanding of communication is central to how effectively and competently we can participate in the debate of where we are positioned and how we are persuaded in our world. What knowledge takes form? How does it inform? What are the basic assumptions?

Communication Ethics

A Sharing Between

As communication claims the priority a new bond takes form between followers and leaders. The followers begin to lead their assembly.

________________ Narrative Accounts Shared Mappings Public Commitments ________________ Arnett, Harden-Fritz, Bell McManus (2018)

Critical Consciousness

Cultures

Investigating the commonsense assumptions.

_____________________ Communication Pedagogy Critical-Cultural Approaches Ethnography Organizational Systems _____________________

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 experience in our shared power.

_________________________ 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

d/Discourses

Competing Meanings

Historical-Relational-Sociocultural Responding to the competing meanings of our world.

discourse Leslie A. Baxter people have opposing needs that exist in dynamic tension and these tensions are evident in discourse

Dialogue

Harmony & Conflict

Exploring the dialogical possibilities of how we can embody, interpret, relate to, and commune with the uncertainties of our world.

Power

Resistance & Control

assumptions political-cultural-economical

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

______________________________ a right to be understood a right to communicate a right to the decision-making process _______________________________