Lessons From the Pandemic: Engaging Wicked Problems With Transdisciplinary Deliberation

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, tra...

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Autores principales: Miles C. Coleman, Susana C. Santos, Joy Cypher, Claude Krummenacher, Robert Fleming
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2f45751d20324348aacf630ada40c64e2021-11-04T20:29:45ZLessons From the Pandemic: Engaging Wicked Problems With Transdisciplinary Deliberation10.31446/JCP.2021.2.172640-45242578-2568https://doaj.org/article/2f45751d20324348aacf630ada40c64e2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jcp/vol5/iss1/17/https://doaj.org/toc/2640-4524https://doaj.org/toc/2578-2568Some 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.Miles C. ColemanSusana C. SantosJoy CypherClaude KrummenacherRobert FlemingCentral States Communication Associationarticletransdiciplinarityhealth communicationcovid-19 pandemicinstructional communicationwicked problemsCommunication. Mass mediaP87-96EducationLENJournal of Communication Pedagogy, Vol 5, Pp 164-171 (2021)
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topic transdiciplinarity
health communication
covid-19 pandemic
instructional communication
wicked problems
Communication. Mass media
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health communication
covid-19 pandemic
instructional communication
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Miles C. Coleman
Susana C. Santos
Joy Cypher
Claude Krummenacher
Robert Fleming
Lessons From the Pandemic: Engaging Wicked Problems With Transdisciplinary Deliberation
description 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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