{"title":"Advocating for and valuing instructional and communication education: standing on the shoulders of giants","authors":"Sherwyn P. Morreale, J. Westwick","doi":"10.1080/03634523.2023.2234515","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The opportunity to re fl ect publicly on the future of any important aspect of one ’ s scholarly life is both a privilege and a responsibility we take seriously. For us, it ’ s a stimulating endeavor because we envision such essays as personal conversations with colleagues interested in and committed to our area of scholarship. However, our sense of the topic of this essay gives us pause – how to e ff ectively advocate for and demonstrate the value of our future work in instructional communication (IC) and communication education (CE). Based on the admonition that “ those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it ” (","PeriodicalId":47722,"journal":{"name":"COMMUNICATION EDUCATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"COMMUNICATION EDUCATION","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2023.2234515","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The opportunity to re fl ect publicly on the future of any important aspect of one ’ s scholarly life is both a privilege and a responsibility we take seriously. For us, it ’ s a stimulating endeavor because we envision such essays as personal conversations with colleagues interested in and committed to our area of scholarship. However, our sense of the topic of this essay gives us pause – how to e ff ectively advocate for and demonstrate the value of our future work in instructional communication (IC) and communication education (CE). Based on the admonition that “ those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it ” (
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Communication Education is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. Communication Education publishes original scholarship that advances understanding of the role of communication in the teaching and learning process in diverse spaces, structures, and interactions, within and outside of academia. Communication Education welcomes scholarship from diverse perspectives and methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, and critical/textual approaches. All submissions must be methodologically rigorous and theoretically grounded and geared toward advancing knowledge production in communication, teaching, and learning. Scholarship in Communication Education addresses the intersections of communication, teaching, and learning related to topics and contexts that include but are not limited to: • student/teacher relationships • student/teacher characteristics • student/teacher identity construction • student learning outcomes • student engagement • diversity, inclusion, and difference • social justice • instructional technology/social media • the basic communication course • service learning • communication across the curriculum • communication instruction in business and the professions • communication instruction in civic arenas In addition to articles, the journal will publish occasional scholarly exchanges on topics related to communication, teaching, and learning, such as: • Analytic review articles: agenda-setting pieces including examinations of key questions about the field • Forum essays: themed pieces for dialogue or debate on current communication, teaching, and learning issues