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Presents a multifaceted analysis of the role of spiritual communication in health and healing. This title includes an introductory chapter that offers a fresh model of health inclusive of spirituality. It also includes an examination of spiritual communication and healing.

A collection of readings which is designed to be used as a supplemental text in health communication - specifically a course concerned with explaining health communication theory and applied research in health communication.

Brings together scholars from various disciplines, institutions, methodologies and genres, who are interested in writing and preparing teachers and researchers of writing. This book covers, topics such as writing assessment, teaching writing and teacher preparation, graduate education, electronic technologies, community literacy, and more.

Provides readers with a critical self-reflective approach to studying the impact of social, cultural, historical, political, and educational backgrounds on the acquisition of literacy.

Offering opinions regarding the nature, scope, purpose and function of the ""First Amendment"", this volume provides a cursory biography of the authors of 34 major theories concerning the ""Amendment"", a brief excerpt from the author's writing, and a description of the impact or effect of the theory on legal doctrine or societal concerns.

Examines how school districts and national school reform organizations can work together to promote effective school reform district wide. Using a set of urban school district cases, this book analyzes how districts and the SDP learned to collaborate and what mechanisms seem to be especially promising in bringing systemic reform to life.

Argues that the youth use the Web to experiment with and deploy a number of rhetorical strategies that tell about their vision for the communications technologies and the literacy practices they use to engage that technology. This book aims to offer a portrait of the future use of communications technologies, particularly the Web.

Takes up many critical question and explores how the discipline of communication can contribute in meaningful ways to produce more vibrant and responsive workplaces and how, in turn the engagement of communication scholars and practitioners in organizational contexts can enrich and deepen theory and scholarship.

This work focuses on the current research on and implications of globalization for social organizations and the study of organizational communication. The chapters are wide-ranging in terms of how they approach international and intercultural issues and draw on a wide range of literatures.

This book explores the following questions: What is the relationship between democratic ideals and goodness in education? What are the characteristics of good schooling and how can they be integrated into real policies and practices. What are the greatest challenges facing schools and how are they addressed?

This text explores the way in which aspirations and careers get negotiated and are constructed among African-American adolescent males int he context of an urban alternative school. It also explores the issue of school and career failure through an ethnographic account of an alternative program.

This is a historical overview of theory and research in the field of mass communication studies. It is an account of the scholarly discourses that have been concerned with mass communication within a period that extends from the early days of the press to the Internet and other advanced communication and information technologies.

Here, the authors explore the position that systemic reform requires addressing the culture of individual schools, and that various reform efforts address school culture in different ways. The chapters promote that the key to success is the match between the strategy in use and the setting.

This text centres upon full inclusion within the higher education curriculum of such disciplines as women's studies, ethnic studies, criminal studies and teacher education. It has a chapter on each discipline and discusses the topic of marginalization within academia.

This work analyzes and compares the use of communication strategies of presidents and their administrations during the television age of politics. In begins in 1961, and demonstrates that various factors can play a role in whether or not a president succeeds in controlling the political agenda.

Considers a variety of interdisciplinary discussion and analysis of historical, legal, cultural, policy, research, professional, oppositional and ethical perspectives on the media ownership question.

Presents studies that promote public dialogue and discussion and that demonstrate how communication consulting can be used to accomplish needed social change. This volume, along with the other volume, shows how scholars have engaged in communication activism to assist individuals, groups, organizations, and communities to secure social reform.

Argues that communication is an intrinsic element of cancer care and holds unique communicative challenges for older adults. This volume focuses on some aspects of how older adults deal with issues of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and how their unique identities play a role.

To date, scholarly work on public support for free expression has been rather sporadic. The authors propose the theory that those who hold power in a society are more likely than the comparatively disenfranchised to support free speech. They support this proposition with survey data gathered in the U.S. Russia, Hong Kong and Israel.

Focuses on studies that show how media can be managed to promote social change and how performance can serve as an important form of communication activism. This volume, along with the other volume, showcases how scholars have engaged in communication activism to assist individuals, groups, organizations, and communities to secure social reform.

Examines how one can teach composition with computers while reflecting critically on the ways technology affects student literacies, faculty labor issues, and the educational environment at contemporary universities. This book develops an economic, political, and cultural account of the field of computers and composition.

This intertwines the author's personal story of her father's death with the story of her ethnography of a hospice organisation. It is an evocative narrative that seeks to understand and explain the process of communicating with the dying - and their families - and the ways that this communication potentially reinforces and enhances the humanity, life, and sanctity of relationships.

Proposing that orality and literacy play a fundamental role in shaping visual storytelling, this challenges the ways we think about how film stories get shaped, as well as the notion of film as an autonomous mode of storytelling construction.

Examines an important public relations case in great depth over the 6-year period in the 1990s when it was managed: General Motors 1973-1987 C/K pickup trucks, which were alleged to have a defective fuel-system design. Lessons learned from this detailed, deeper examination of public relations offer valuable insights from an active bridging of theory and practice.