Integrating Communication Skills and Planning Techniques
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Planning Education and Research
- Vol. 11 (2) , 141-150
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x9201100206
Abstract
Practitioners have long stressed the need to teach professional commumcations skills to planning students. This paper describes ten years of experience in teaching a course in which communications skills and techniques of gathering and analyzing information are taught concurrently while investigating a problem of importance in the community. The course involves an ongoing collaboration, a "marriage of convenience," between an academic and a planner, casting city/county planning staff as clients for students This has proven useful for pedagogy and has had some positive impact on the community.Keywords
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