ABSTRACT
Communication is a word describing what goes on between one and someone else when we are together in a relationship, sharing something. This chapter provides a discussion on the communication process and the educational process, in their narrow as well as broad senses. Interpersonal communication exhibits several interlocking natures. It is dialogue, it is process, it is perception, it is symbol, it is nonverbal, it is all relationship. The most important insight about communication is at the same time one of the silliest sounding statements conceivable. Students are sometimes surprised to find how inaccurate human understanding can be when participating in “rumor,” a simple birthday party-like game we sometimes do in class. A person who hears a relatively simple one paragraph news story once in a no-feedback environment is expected to explain its essence to the next student, who did not hear the orginial story.
