’Working Backwards Makes you Think!‘ Constructing and Presenting Case Studies to Understand Methodology and Theory in a Communication Masters Course

Abstract

This paper analyses student construction of case studies, using dialogue and role plays, to stimulate and consolidate understand of organization communication research , theory and methodology. Students undertaking a course as part of a Masters program in communication management need to absorb a range of organizational research perspectives and organizational communication theories. Making the theorists and methodological perspectives 'about you' is one way of stimulating interest and engagement with demanding and complex concepts. Student response to the case study construction and some dialogue examples are included.

A qualitative study examining the preparedness of dental hygiene students for a service‐learning placement in residential aged care

“…The use of newly graduated students portraying dental hygiene students in the production of the DVD enabled undergraduate students in the orientation workshop to identify with their peers and put themselves in the same situation. There is support from other researchers to demonstrate that applying concepts they have come to understand not just as theories in a book, but concepts in action is beneficial (23)(24)(25)(26).…”