Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Testing Tolerance: Addressing Controversy in the Journalism and Mass Communication Classroom (Master Class: Resources for Teaching Mass Communication)

Tough topics are inescapable for journalism and mass communication academics. If it's in the news, journalism and mass communication instructors have to discuss it in class. In Testing Tolerance, Candi Carter Olson and Tracy Everbach of the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women bring together a broad range of perspectives, from graduate students to deans, in conversation about ways to address tough topics in and out of the university classroom. Helping instructors navigate today's toughest topics through discussions of the issues and pertinent terminology, this book provides hands-on exercises and practical advice applicable across student and instructor levels and disciplines. Readers will gain an understanding of the issues and acquire tools to address these topics in sensitive, yet forthright, ways. Review Compelling topics, insightful contributors, and practical pedagogical wisdom. Whether you're an instructor, administrator, or even a student, this book is a valuable and challenging resource.--Tim P. Vos, President, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) The pedagogy, lessons, and references outlined in Testing Tolerance are desperately need and vitally important for professors and students facing an increasingly intolerant world. A guidebook to help fortify the fragile minds and souls and dreams entrusted to us and our institutions.--Cathy M. Jackson, associate professor, Norfolk State University This book touches all the areas that affect academic achievement few are willing to touch. The best practices offered are distinct. Classroom exercises provide opportunities to really challenge and change student thought and action. Written with solid scholarly grounding and empathetic finesse, it should be a must for every instructor's toolbox.--Barbara Bealor Hines, professor emerita, Howard University, Past President AEJMC With hot-button issues confronting professors and their students in a changing, and often toxic, political, economic and social environment, this book should be required reading for teachers and administrators in every journalism/communications program. An excellent and much-needed resource.--Maurine H. Beasley, professor emerita, University of Maryland College Park, Past President AEJMC With the differing backgrounds and experiences students bring to the classroom today, the learning process must be ready to deal with controversial and, perhaps, uncomfortable situations that students and faculty will inevitably face both in and out of the classroom. This book creates a new awareness of viewing the world and those around us differently and realistically. It is a must-read for everyone in education.--Dr. Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, Executive Director, Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, Florida International University About the Author Candi Carter Olson is an assistant professor at Utah State University. Her research interests focus on women's press clubs as agents of change, newswomen's history, and women's use of social media to build community and organize activist groups. She is a 2018 AEJMC Rising Scholar Research Award winner, and in the past received an American Association of University Women American Fellowship, a Mountain West Center research grant, and an American Journalism Rising Scholar award. Underserved Communities and Digital Discourse: Getting Voices Heard, a book she co-edited with Dr. Victoria L. LaPoe and Dr. Benjamin LaPoe, was published in October 2018. Tracy Everbach is professor of journalism in the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on race, gender and media, news reporting, mass communication theories, and qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on women's work and leadership in journalism, and on representations of race and gender in media. She is the co-author of Mediating Misogyny: Gender Technology