Spheres of Influence: Ventures and Visions in Educational Development*3-6 July, 2002 AbstractDesigning, implementing, and publishing scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teachingLaurie Richlin, Claremont Graduate University, USA Ever since the Carnegie Foundation's publication of Scholarship Reconsidered (Boyer, 1990), faculty members have worked to understand and implement the idea of appropriate faculty scholarship. Unfortunately, the concept of a scholarship of teaching has become mixed up with the act of teaching itself. This confusion was made greater with the publication of the Carnegie Foundation's follow-up volume, Scholarship Assessed (Glassick, Huber, & Maeroff, 1997), which attempted to describe the criteria by which Boyer's four types of scholarship should be judged. This workshop will differentiate the concepts and provide participants with the tools needed to investigate the effects of their own teaching innovations and prepare their findings for presentation or publication. This workshop will involve going over the scholarly process from the setting of learning objectives, through investigation of related literature, selecting teaching innovations, and documenting student and faculty progress. "Going public" with our research on teaching and learning in our courses is an essential component of this kind of scholarship. What do does a faculty member need to know about publishing opportunities and strategies for succeeding with writing and peer review? This workshop will discuss the proper venue for presentation and likely journals for publication and will include discussion of tailoring work for possible different audiences for presentations and publications. The main focus will be on projects that the participants are interested in accomplishing. Key words: Objectives, outcomes and activities:
Laurie Richlin is Director of the Lilly Conferences on College and University Teaching, Executive Editor of the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, Director of the Preparing Future Faculty Program at Claremont Graduate School, and President of the International Alliance of Teacher Scholars. She received her doctorate in higher education from the Claremont Graduate University and her dissertation research on alternative faculty scholarship received the national Gratzke award from the American Association of University Administrators. Her recent publications include "Scholarly Teaching & the Scholarship of Teaching" in The Scholarship of Teaching (New Directions in Teaching and Learning) and Preparing Faculty for the New Conceptions of Scholarship (New Directions in Teaching and Learning). She has taught Journalism, Career Development, capstone courses in Education, writing and research methods courses in several disciplines. Richlin developed and implemented the Teaching Assistant Development Program at the University of California, Riverside, was "Educator in Residence" at four small colleges in Kentucky and Indiana under a FIPSE grant, and served as Director of the Office of Faculty Development at the University of Pittsburgh before returning to California. Contact: Laurie Richlin, email: laurie.richlin@cgu.edu |