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Small Group Communication: Forming & Sustaining Teams is an interdisciplinary textbook focused on communication in groups and teams. This textbook aims to provide students with theories, concepts, and skills they can put into practice to form and sustain successful groups across a variety of contexts.

About Contributor

• Editor and contributor:
  • Cheryl McPherson, MSW, RSW is a professor in the addiction and mental health work program at Centennial College. She teaches courses on contemporary theory of addiction and mental health work, research literacy and group work practice.  She is passionate about universal design for learners in order to create inclusive spaces that respect and value many ways of knowing and doing.

About the Original CONTRIBUTORS

• Editor:
  • Jasmine R. Linabary, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of communication at Emporia State University. Her research focuses on organizing, new media, and social change. She teaches classes on topics like small group communication, group leadership, communication and emerging technology, ethics, and public speaking, among others. She is also the co-founder and director of the EAT Initiative, an interdisciplinary and collaborative effort to combat food insecurity.
• Contributor:
  • Moon Castro is a McNair Scholar and a senior communication major at Emporia State University. His research interests include peacebuilding, social change, and emerging technology. Castro is a past winner of the Community Impact Challenge, a grant competition in which teams of students identify creative and meaningful solutions to challenges facing the campus or local community.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Professor Paula Demacio, professor in the Center for Organizational Learning and Teaching (COLT), for her contributions and insights. She has inspired me in UDL teaching and OERs.

Copyright Information

Content in this textbook is adapted and remixed from Linabary, J.R. (Ed.). (2021). Small group communication: Forming and sustaining teams. Pressbooks. https://pressbooks.pub/smallgroup/. Each chapter contains attribution information and has its own Creative Commons (CC) license at the end of the chapter under the heading “Author & Attribution.”

This adaptation has reformatted original text, replaced or removed some images and figures, condensed content, added a chapter and combined related materials but has otherwise not significantly altered the content from the attributed sources. This textbook as a whole is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license unless otherwise specified in the individual chapter.

For questions or revisions related to this book, please contact Cheryl McPherson (cmcpherson@centennialcollege.ca).

RECOMMENDED REFERENCE

The following is a recommended reference in APA style for this book:

McPherson, C. (Ed.). (2022). Working in Small Groups. Pressbooks. https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/amhw202groupwork/