Communication Theories, Principles, and Models in Education & Training

This essay provides an analysis of communication theories, principles, and models within the context of education and training. It examines transactional analysis as a psychoanalytic tool for understanding interpersonal behavior and its impact on student communication. The essay also explores the Shannon and Weaver model, detailing its components (sender, encoder, channel, noise, decoder, receiver) and application in teaching scenarios. Furthermore, it discusses the Johari Window model, focusing on its role in understanding relationships and enhancing perceptions in communication. The essay emphasizes the importance of effective communication in teaching, learning, and assessment, highlighting how these models facilitate knowledge transfer and skill development. This resource is ideal for students seeking a comprehensive overview of communication theories in educational settings.

Theories, Principles and Models in
Education and Training

Task B
2.1 Analysis of theories, principles and models of communication
The transactional analysis is a psychoanalytic tool that helps to study the
interpersonal behaviour of the individual. To identify and understand different
behaviour at different situations by the same individual comes under this analysis
(Ellwood, 2020). This framework is used to understand the behaviour development
among the student for the better communication in learning. Generally, this analysis
shows the way to interact with the student on the basis of behaviour development.
This analysis is based upon the communication between two individual
such as teacher and students. Any of the individual does not behave like same in all
the situation, their behave depends on upon the situation and can be defined as three
stages of the ego: Parental attitude, adult attitude or the child attitude.

Communication cycle itself describes the sender, medium, receiver and the
feedback steps in it. As an example if the teacher is questioning and the student is
answering, then this loop depict a communication cycle.
The communication technique can be explained with Shanon and Weaver
model of communication.
Shanon and Weaver model: It is also known as the mother of all existing models.
The model explains the linear manner communication in between the sender to
receiver. This model includes 7 factors as: sender, receiver, encoder, decoder,
channel, noise and the feedback.

 Sender – Teacher
 Encoder- the message (What is your name) encoded in the form of sound wave to
travel in the medium.
 Channel- air is the medium that is carrying sound wave. As an example If the
teacher is using telephone then the telephone is a medium to transfer the signal.
 Noise- Noise can be internal or external in nature. Internal noise is when the student
do mistake in listening the question teacher have asked. External noise is when other
student are too noisy to understand the question of teacher.

2.2 Theories, principles and models of communication applied to teaching,
learning and assessment
Communication in the process of teaching is the main things which helps
the teachers in communicating with the students and helps them learn the different
ways through which they can learn and understand their assessments. Teachers are
constantly imparting new knowledge or transmitting information which helps the
students in knowing that they can gain most of the knowledge and information
through them (Garkushenko, 2018).
There are effective listening skills which help in making and framing the
scale of how the learning and teaching can be done in an effective manner.

Models of communication applied to teaching, learning and assessment are
explained as below –
Shannon and Weaver Model – This model is the mathematical theory of
communication which argues that human communication is divided into six key
channels which are – sender, encoder, channel, noise, decoder and receiver. With the
help of this model the message is being conveyed from the sender to the receiver
and in between the process the message is being encoded and decoded which helps
in making and framing the scale through which all possible facts and information is
being known in the process of learning and teaching (Kubota, 2019).

Johari Window Model – This model helps in understanding the relationships with
selves and others while interacting the process of communication and
communicating at large scale. This helps in making and framing the scale through
which the enhancement is done for the perceptions on others and this helps in
making and creating the value of what others think and what are their perspectives.
There are four factors which explains the Johari Window which is –
 Open/self – area or Arena – This helps in identifying the person’s behaviour,
attitudes, skills, feelings and views which are known by person and by others. This
is the area where the communication process occurs.