Welcome to my home page. This page is designed to give you an idea of who I am -- both professionally and personally.Explore the links on this page and you will discover some of my interests in and outside of Fielding.

If you are a HOD student, please take a look at the knowledge areas in which I asess. I would be happy to talk more with you about assessment guidelines. 

To contact me, please send me an email at bpearce@fielding.edu, or call me at my Redwood City, CA office, (650) 306-7971. 

My Story

Research & Professional Interests

• Communication theory
• Public discourse
• Dialogic communication
• Discourse analysis
• Social constructionism
• Pragmatism
• Finding ways to describe forms of practice

• Communication and the Human Condition
• Interpersonal Communication: Making Social Worlds
• Moral Conflict: When Social Worlds Collide

• Moments of Meeting: Buber, Rogers and the Potential for Public Dialogue
• Toward a National Conversation about Public Issues

• Pearce, W. B. & Pearce, K. A. 2000. Combining passions and abilities: Toward dialogic virtuosity. Southern Communication Journal. 65: 161-175

• W. Barnett Pearce and Kimberly A. Pearce (2000), Extending the theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) through a community dialogue process, Communication Theory, 10: 405-423.

• W. Barnett Pearce and Kimberly A. Pearce (1999), [Going Public: Working Systemically in Public Contexts], "Tornando-se público": trabalhando sistemicamente em contextos publicos. Pp. 275-296 in D. Fried Schnitman & S. Littlejohn (Eds.) Novos paradigmas em mediaçâo. Porto Alegre: Artmed. Trans. J. Haubert Rodrigues & MA G. Domingues.

• Kimberly A. Pearce and W. Barnett Pearce (2001), The Public Dialogue Consortium's school-wide dialogue process: A communication approach to develop citizenship skills and enhance school climate. Communication Theory, 11: 105-123

• Pearce Associates
• The Public Dialogue Consortium
• CMM intranet site
• Dallas Cowboys Official Website

• HOD 752 Inquiry & Research
• HOD 703 Systems Theories and Application
• HOD 706 Social Psychology
• HOD 710 Ecological Studies
• HOD 714 Family, Community, Human Service Delivery