Listening Across Lives
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 240
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 200
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Listening Skills Contribute to Successful Careers and Relationships
Written by a myriad of experts, including contributors to the International Journal of Listening and other academic journals, Listening Across Lives features a unique contextual approach to the study of listening. Each of Listening Across Lives’ ten chapters examine listening through a specific context – many of which have never been addressed before.
The NEW Second Edition of Listening Across Lives by Teri L. Varner, Molly M. Stoltz, and Carl M. Cates:
- Promotes Comprehension! Chapter Introductions, Objectives, Key Terms, Summaries, Discussion Questions, and Activities help readers focus on important concepts.
- Analyzes listening skills in leadership, spiritual/religious, relational, organizational, education, health communication, and other contexts.
- Features a chapter dedicated to Listening to AI. The chapter introduces students to the role of technology and artificial intelligence within the listening process, examines how listening spaces are created within various technological contexts, and discusses the negative & positive attributes.
Chapter 1: Contextualizing Listening
Chapter 2: Why Some People Won’t Can’t Listen: An Introduction to Listening Disorders and Barriers to Effective Listening
Chapter 3: Listening In(To) Close Relationships
Chapter 4: Listening across Cultural Diversity
Chapter 5: Listening Across Spiritual and Religious Diversity
Chapter 6: Listening to Family
Chapter 7: Listening in the Organizational Context
Chapter 8: Listening to AI
Chapter 9: Listening in Interpersonal Health Communication
Chapter 10: Listening in Education
Teri L. Varner is a tenured Professor of Communication at St. Edward’s University (Austin, TX). She holds a Ph.D. in Communication with an emphasis in Performance Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches courses such as Introduction to Communication, Communication Theory, Communication Research Methods, Nonverbal Communication, Public Speaking, and Active Listening. Her qualitative research interests range from hair/body politics to metacognitive listening strategies used by L1 American students. She has been a member of the National Communication Association (NCA) and the International Listening Association (ILA). She has been published and currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Listening.
Molly Stoltz, Ph.D. is a highly skilled and educated communication expert employed by GSA/FEDSIM. She has also served as an assistant professor of communication at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, GA where she has taught a listening course since 2009, which was the same year she joined the International Listening Association. Her interest in the field of listening began a few years before when she decided to write a dissertation in which she developed her own model of listening. She has been published in the International Journal of Listening and has a particular interest in listening in the spiritual and religious context.
Carl M. Cates currently teaches as a member of the faculty at the University of Texas Permian Basin having previously served in faculty and administrative roles for institutions in Arkansas and Georgia. At this time, he also serves as the President of the Southern States Communication Association having previously served SSCA as Executive Director. His teaching includes courses in listening, interviewing, organizational communication, public speaking, quantitative research methods, leadership, and qualitative research methods
Listening Skills Contribute to Successful Careers and Relationships
Written by a myriad of experts, including contributors to the International Journal of Listening and other academic journals, Listening Across Lives features a unique contextual approach to the study of listening. Each of Listening Across Lives’ ten chapters examine listening through a specific context – many of which have never been addressed before.
The NEW Second Edition of Listening Across Lives by Teri L. Varner, Molly M. Stoltz, and Carl M. Cates:
- Promotes Comprehension! Chapter Introductions, Objectives, Key Terms, Summaries, Discussion Questions, and Activities help readers focus on important concepts.
- Analyzes listening skills in leadership, spiritual/religious, relational, organizational, education, health communication, and other contexts.
- Features a chapter dedicated to Listening to AI. The chapter introduces students to the role of technology and artificial intelligence within the listening process, examines how listening spaces are created within various technological contexts, and discusses the negative & positive attributes.
Chapter 1: Contextualizing Listening
Chapter 2: Why Some People Won’t Can’t Listen: An Introduction to Listening Disorders and Barriers to Effective Listening
Chapter 3: Listening In(To) Close Relationships
Chapter 4: Listening across Cultural Diversity
Chapter 5: Listening Across Spiritual and Religious Diversity
Chapter 6: Listening to Family
Chapter 7: Listening in the Organizational Context
Chapter 8: Listening to AI
Chapter 9: Listening in Interpersonal Health Communication
Chapter 10: Listening in Education
Teri L. Varner is a tenured Professor of Communication at St. Edward’s University (Austin, TX). She holds a Ph.D. in Communication with an emphasis in Performance Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches courses such as Introduction to Communication, Communication Theory, Communication Research Methods, Nonverbal Communication, Public Speaking, and Active Listening. Her qualitative research interests range from hair/body politics to metacognitive listening strategies used by L1 American students. She has been a member of the National Communication Association (NCA) and the International Listening Association (ILA). She has been published and currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Listening.
Molly Stoltz, Ph.D. is a highly skilled and educated communication expert employed by GSA/FEDSIM. She has also served as an assistant professor of communication at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, GA where she has taught a listening course since 2009, which was the same year she joined the International Listening Association. Her interest in the field of listening began a few years before when she decided to write a dissertation in which she developed her own model of listening. She has been published in the International Journal of Listening and has a particular interest in listening in the spiritual and religious context.
Carl M. Cates currently teaches as a member of the faculty at the University of Texas Permian Basin having previously served in faculty and administrative roles for institutions in Arkansas and Georgia. At this time, he also serves as the President of the Southern States Communication Association having previously served SSCA as Executive Director. His teaching includes courses in listening, interviewing, organizational communication, public speaking, quantitative research methods, leadership, and qualitative research methods