Defense Date
10-17-2014
Graduation Date
2014
Availability
Immediate Access
Submission Type
dissertation
Degree Name
PhD
Department
Communication and Rhetorical Studies
School
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Committee Chair
Pat Arneson
Committee Member
Janie M. Harden Fritz
Committee Member
Erik Garrett
Keywords
civility, culture, ethics, intercultural, narrative, postmodern
Abstract
This project responds to the question: How can educators quell communicative classroom incivilities (CI) that are currently harming teaching and learning? Sources of CI in a postmodern United States university classroom involve: student entitlement, lack of institutional support for a growing contingent faculty, and incongruent values about appropriate classroom communication. Unlike preceding historical time periods that maintained a shared communicative ethic stemming from antiquity to modernity, postmodernity presents an unprecedented challenge to teaching and learning where there can be no assumed shared ethic of appropriate communicative classroom communication. Postmodernity as an age of coexisting and contentious narratives, this project argues for professors to proactively and appropriately establish an ethic of communicative civility within their classroom.
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Format
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Leontiadis, J. (2014). University Education in a Postmodern Era: Building a Narrative Ethic of Civil Communication in the Classroom (Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/819