Teaching Communication Policy: Pedagogy in Brief

This article summarizes a Canadian Communication Association round table session in June 2006 that brought together some of Canada’s leading instructors of communication policy: Paul Audley (Schulich School of Business, York University), Pierre Bélanger (Department of Communication, University of Ottawa), Vanda Rideout (Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick), Liora Salter (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), and David Skinner (Communication Studies, York University). The participants in the session provided insight around six key issues in teaching policy: 1) Challenges, 2) Definitions, 3) Making It Contemporary, 4) Including History, 5) Including a Future, and 6) Reading, Writing, and Role-Play.