Beginning hundredths of years ago, children were taught by either family members or if you were wealthy enough, private tutors. This did not change until the puritans came along in this country to point out the need for some kind of public education. They established schools to teach not just the essentials-reading, writing and math- but also to reinforce their morals and basic laws of the community. After the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson argued that the newly independent nation needed an educational system, and he suggested that tax dollars be used to fund it. His pleas were ignored, however, and the idea for a public school system languished for nearly a century. (McClellan, 1999) In 1918, however; every child in the United States
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According to recent studies, nearly sixty percent of jobs in the United States today require a degree in a higher education and those that do not acquire a degree are normally stuck in middle to lower class living, which according the U.S. Census Bureau is affecting more than 146 million Americans. So you get it, education is important, but what does this have to do with communication? Every student has to have a teacher to guide them in the right path as well as educating them enough to get them into his or next step of the learning process. This will require communication from not only the teacher to student, but the student to student, and the parent to student. All of this communication combined equals to what is known as Instructional communication. Instructional communication focuses explicitly on interface between communication and instruction as it is the study of the human communication process as it occurs within instructional environments (Ann Q. Staton-Spicer and Cheryl R. Marty-White, 2009). In the following paper you will learn about communication theories dealing with education, what positive communication through the students, teachers, and parents lead for students in the future, and also what negative communication will …show more content…
Our traditions can be traced to 3200 B.C. but communication Speech courses for ministers were offered at Harvard as early as 1636 and similar courses for teachers were offered at Indiana University in 1892 (Wallace, 1954). The critical turning point for contemporary IC researchers occurred at the end of the 1960s with the creation of two IC doctoral programs--one at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN (1967) and the other at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL (1970). After two years passed, in 1972, the Instructional and Developmental Division was created by the International Communication Association. From this point on it became clear that communication was a necessity to go on through life, especially when getting through school. Later on, instructional communication developed. This type of communication is a study of the communication process as it occurs within instructional environments. Fundamentally its criterion are indeed broad, assimilating a diversity of levels, settings, and subject areas. And though the bodies of literature dealing with aspects both communication and instruction are voluminous, research focusing specifically on instructional is in its infancy. (Ann Q. Staton-Spicer and Cheryl R. Marty-White, 2009) So, too, is the appearance of the instructional communication theory.
According to recent studies, nearly sixty percent of jobs in the United States today require a degree in a higher education and those that do not acquire a degree are normally stuck in middle to lower class living, which according the U.S. Census Bureau is affecting more than 146 million Americans. So you get it, education is important, but what does this have to do with communication? Every student has to have a teacher to guide them in the right path as well as educating them enough to get them into his or next step of the learning process. This will require communication from not only the teacher to student, but the student to student, and the parent to student. All of this communication combined equals to what is known as Instructional communication. Instructional communication focuses explicitly on interface between communication and instruction as it is the study of the human communication process as it occurs within instructional environments (Ann Q. Staton-Spicer and Cheryl R. Marty-White, 2009). In the following paper you will learn about communication theories dealing with education, what positive communication through the students, teachers, and parents lead for students in the future, and also what negative communication will …show more content…
Our traditions can be traced to 3200 B.C. but communication Speech courses for ministers were offered at Harvard as early as 1636 and similar courses for teachers were offered at Indiana University in 1892 (Wallace, 1954). The critical turning point for contemporary IC researchers occurred at the end of the 1960s with the creation of two IC doctoral programs--one at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN (1967) and the other at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL (1970). After two years passed, in 1972, the Instructional and Developmental Division was created by the International Communication Association. From this point on it became clear that communication was a necessity to go on through life, especially when getting through school. Later on, instructional communication developed. This type of communication is a study of the communication process as it occurs within instructional environments. Fundamentally its criterion are indeed broad, assimilating a diversity of levels, settings, and subject areas. And though the bodies of literature dealing with aspects both communication and instruction are voluminous, research focusing specifically on instructional is in its infancy. (Ann Q. Staton-Spicer and Cheryl R. Marty-White, 2009) So, too, is the appearance of the instructional communication theory.