Communication Teaching: Labour in Silence and Critique. Introduction to the Special Issue

<jats:p> This special issue is the result of a year long process of discussion and consultation among menbers of the Canadian Communication Association. It began with the observation that most of us are in academic employ and thus work in teaching. While the activity of teaching is the practice we most comnonly engage in, we rarely ever discuss it -- at least not in public and within the institutional setting of the annual conference; nor do we devote much space in our two Canadian journals to it. Our conferences and publications are almst entirely occupied by reports about our other shared activity-- research. The absence of discussion, debate and exchanges makes teaching a practice performed in silence. </jats:p>