A Guide to Collaborative Communication for Service-Learning and Community Engagement Partners

This book focuses on partnerships at the most basic level of interaction - between two people as they work toward common goals. This book offers a conceptual framework of collaborative communication to build and sustain partnerships, recognizing that relationships change over time as the people involved and their circumstances evolve.

Autorentext

Rebecca Dumlao is a professor in the School of Communication, East Carolina University.

Zusammenfassung
This book focuses on partnerships at the most basic level of interaction between two people as they work toward common goals. This book offers a conceptual framework of collaborative communication to build and sustain partnerships, recognizing that relationships change over time as the people involved and their circumstances evolve.

Inhalt

Foreword by Cathy Burack Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Thinking About Ourselves and Our Partnerships 2. Community Engagement and Partnership Communication 3. The Collaborative Communication Framework 4. Practices and Processes for Collaborative Communication 5. Leadership in a Changing World 6. Navigating Cultural Differences while Preserving Relationships 7. Dealing with Partner Differences and Conflicts 8. Creative Change for Future Community Engagement Appendix. Learning Activities Annotated Bibliography References About the Author Index