Communication Education: The Spiral Continues

“I Am Also in the Position to Use My Whiteness to Help Them Out”: The Communication of Whiteness in Service Learning

“…This is in line with the calls of several scholars for reflexivity about communication practices in the classroom and how educational identities are created and maintained (Fassett & Warren, 2004;Hendrix, Jackson, & Warren, 2003;Sprague, 1993Sprague, , 2002. Regardless of the class being taught, it is imperative for instructors to be conscious of the choices they make in syllabus construction, course design, and classroom communication.…”

Development of the Parental Academic Support Scale: Frequency, Importance, and Modes of Communication

“…CMC plays an even more important role in the parentÁteacher context due to the convenience associated with asynchronous communication, enabling parents and teachers to communicate more frequently when a need arises. In sum, recent instructional communication scholarship has identified important connections between various forms of teacher and student-oriented supportive behaviors and academic success and student expression at the collegiate level; however, parental support at the K-12 level remains significantly understudied (Sprague, 1992(Sprague, , 2002. Given the recent growth of social support scholarship and parentÁteacher communication, research that develops an instrument to assess parental academic support at the elementary, junior high, and high school levels across modes can assist educators, parents, and students in understanding the complexities that comprise the parental support process.…”

Communicative Acts in Coach–Athlete Interactions: When Losing Competitions and When Making Mistakes in Training

“…Sprague, 2002). They can broaden knowledge on coach behavior and communication by investigating, through in-depth interviews with coaches, how coaches perceive their own reactions when their athletes lose competitions and make mistakes in training, and how they perceive the impact of these reactions on the athletes.…”