A study identified the academic needs of Australian vocational educators who are developing their own and others' communication competence in response to the imperative for vocational educators to provide a wide range of programs in communication for the workplace. Subjects, over 100 vocational educators enrolled in the University of Technology, Sydney, in the School of Adult Vocational Education, spoke to individual lecturers and evaluated formatively and summatively a new major sequence of four subjects in Communication Development Studies. Results indicated the vocational educators' needs clustered around a strong interest relating to conflict management, negotiation, listening, assertiveness, team building, group dynamics, leadership, interviewing and conducting meetings as a communication process. The academic program has tried to model educational principles in adult education to acknowledge teachers' diversity and to provide opportunities for educators to focus their intellectual efforts on producing benefits for their practice of teaching. An experiential approach to the teaching of communication principles and practices, along with opportunities for discussion of key issues, would be appropriate. Assessment by negotiating an individual learning contract with an academic advisor provides a means for communication specialists to demonstrate development of their own and/or others' understanding and practice of an aspect of communication. The new major sequence of study in communication emphasizes combining theoretical approaches in communication with strategies for teaching, and indeed facilitating, communication in many vocational contexts. (A description of the course comprising the major sequence of study is attached. Contains 60 references.) (RS)
Authors
- Location
- Australia
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- ['Speeches/Meeting Papers', 'Reports - Research', 'Reports - Descriptive']
- Published in
- United States of America
Table of Contents
- Dr Shirley Saunders 2
- Communication Association and the Australian and New Zealand paper was presented in the Session on 2
- Communication Module. 4
- Communication. 4
- Respondents from the armed services commented that communication was taught is increasing. These indude basic reading writing ard studying 5
- One health educator remarked I am interested in communication teaching 5
- Teaching Communication 7
- To improveincrease awareness of interpersonal communication both at 7
- 2. Facilitating others learning developing others communication skills 8
- 3. Processing of own learning developing own communication skills 8
- To improve my communication skills in all areas. Another career avenue 9
- Written communication 9
- Questioning - goodbad questioning 9
- Individual construction of meaning 9
- Attribution and relational communication Formal communication 9
- Interviewing 10
- Intrapersonal communication Presenting information 10
- Nondiscriminatory writing and speaking Persuasion Theory of communication 10
- Self development 10
- Group methods Assessment of group normsneeds 10
- Generating group development to enhance learning 11
- Group behaviour Group manipulation - personality of groups 11
- Maintaining groups Teamwork 11
- Work team communication 11
- Work team communication 11
- Interviewing audits 12
- Nonverbal communication Client interaction in a multicultural environment 12
- Communication audits 12
- Analysis of the development of the quality movement within the changing 12
- Workplace Communication 12
- Graphic Communication 12
- Interviews 12
- Writing in Plain English 13
- Presenting Information 13
- Work Team Communication 13
- Technical Writing 13
- It is important to make opportunities to integrate 16
- Fort Worth Holt Rinehart and Winston. 18
- Second edition. 18
- Rinehart and Winston. 19
- Englewood Cliffs New 20
- Sydney University of 20
- Sydney University of 20
- Sydney University of 20
