Teaching and Gaining a Voice: A Rhetorical Intersectionality Approach to Pedagogy of Feminist Organizational Communication

Abstract

We propose a rhetorical intersectionality pedagogy to teach Buzzanell’s (1994) “Gaining a Voice.” Specifically, we advance Buzzanell’s vision by presenting a way to teach this article in an intersectional manner and open the dialogue to a wider range of students. This approach encompasses four needs: (a) unhiding the curriculum and the underlying structure of our academic settings, (b) asking learners and instructors to heed silence and silence breaking, (c) encouraging learners and instructors to embrace rhetorical listening, and (d) setting aside canon and convention to make way for parrhesia within our communication programs. Our contribution foregrounds pedagogy as a vital aspect of higher education’s impact on contemporary and future feminist organizational communication issues.

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organizational communication feminism rhetorical intersectionality pedagogy

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