The Journal of Communication Pedagogy (JCP) is a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Central States Communication Association. The journal publishes only the highest quality articles that extend communication theory, research, and practice in meaningful ways. We seek manuscripts that focus on instructional communication research situated in a variety of contexts such as (but not limited to) health, business/industry, religious, risk/crisis, training and leadership, public relations, journalism, forensics, and nonprofits both within the borders of the United States and beyond them. We are particularly interested in diversity, equity, and inclusion research as well as the use of technology in instruction. We welcome manuscripts that focus on instructional communication research within the communication discipline and beyond it (e.g., education, agriculture, social work, legal studies, engineering and S.T.E.M., pharmacy, nursing, health sciences). In sum, we seek manuscripts that examine communication pedagogy as it occurs across subfields in the communication discipline, in disciplines throughout the academy, and in contexts beyond the walls of higher education.
Please check back for the current (2025; Volume 9) call.
All submissions are due on March 1, 2025, in order to be considered for Volume 9.
The Journal of Communication Pedagogy currently accepts manuscripts on a rolling basis, publishing once a year and is an open-access journal. All manuscripts must adhere to the guidelines published in the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association and must not have been published elsewhere or be under review for any other publication.
Current Volume: Volume 8 (2024)
Editorial
Editor’s Note to Volume 8 of the Journal of Communication Pedagogy: Never Stop Learning
Renee Kaufmann
Research Articles
“Just holding that space”: Using Culturally Relevant Pedagogy to Create Counterspaces for Black College Students in AANAPISI/HSI Classrooms
Nicholas B. Lacy, Yea-Wen Chen, and Damariyé L. Smith
Using a Career Research Project in the Introductory Communication Course to Develop Agency, Self-Efficacy, Self-Determination, and Adaptability in Career Exploration
Stephen A. Klien, John Elmer, and Patrick J. Rottinghaus
Intergenerational Connections: US College Students’ Attitudes and Expectations Toward Older Adults and Aging in an Online Critical Community Engagement Project
Sandra L. Faulkner, Madison Pollino, Jaclyn Shetterly, and Wendy K. Watson
You Don’t Have to be Their Best Friend: Complicating the Instructor-Student Relationship through a Mixed-Method Typology
Jessalyn I. Vallade and Kyle Rudick
So sorry your grandma died. Get that paper in.”: Graduate Teaching Assistants' Experiences of Student Grief in the Communication Classroom
Jessica Cherry and Carly Densmore
Best Practice
What is the Goal of Defining Family? Best Practices for Teaching Family Communication
Kaitlin E. Phillips
Reflective Essays
Post-Truth's Effect on the Brain and the Future Self: A Critical Communication Pedagogy Response
David H. Kahl Jr.
Engaging Impasse: Nurturing a Culture of Dialogic Engagement on a University Campus
Patricia Ann Hawk
Maintaining the Complex Personal and Professional Elements of Our Lives in Academe
Sydney E. Brammer, Ryan J. Martinez, and Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter
#politicalcommunicationsowhite: A call for considering race in the undergraduate political communication course
Ant Woodall and Lindsey Meeks
Presidential Spotlight
Accented and Silenced Voices
Ahmet Atay
Complete Volume
JCP Volume 8 Editors
- Editor
- Renee Kaufmann
- Consulting Editors
- Brandi N. Frisby
- Jessalyn I. Vallade
- Patric R. Spence
- Stephen Spates
- Xialing Lin