Lessons From the Pandemic: Engaging Wicked Problems With Transdisciplinary Deliberation
Journal of Communication Pedagogy
; 5:164-171, 2021.
Article
in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-20234327
ABSTRACT
Some crises, such as those brought on or exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, are wicked problems—large, complex problems with no immediate answer. As such, they make rich centerpieces for learning with respect to public deliberation and issue-based dialogue. This essay reflects on an experimental, transdisciplinary health and science communication course entitled Comprehending COVID-19. The course represents a collaborative effort among 14 faculty representing 10 different academic departments to create a resource for teaching students how to deliberate the pandemic, despite its attending, oversaturated, fake-news-infused, infodemic. We offer transdisciplinary deliberation as a pedagogical framework to expand communication repertoires in ways useful for sifting through the messiness of an infodemic while also developing key deliberation skills for productively engaging participatory decision-making with concern to wicked problems.
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Databases of international organizations
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ProQuest Central
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Journal of Communication Pedagogy
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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