Kiernan offers an account from her classroom to illuminate how rhetorical listening raises social awareness to benefit students’ game design.
Julia Kiernan
Julia Kiernan is an Associate Professor of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communication at Lawrence Technological University. Her research and teaching are intimately linked. Her preferred research methodology is action research, which focuses on listening, reflection, and feedback’s impacts on classroom learning processes. Her research regularly examines the shifting implications of pedagogical and curricular design as linked to social justice; her current research explores DEIJ across new media studies, game studies, and environmental humanities.
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