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What is community engagement?

Scott Greenberger — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 14:59:24 -0400

For the purposes of this journal, community engagement involves higher education faculty, staff, or students applying their disciplinary knowledge to foster community projects that result in solutions to problems of practice. There are a wide range of projects that could be included to document the engagement. Among other possibilities, portfolios…

What is the purpose of academic journals?

Scott Greenberger — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:17:51 -0400

What is the purpose of academic journals? Conley (2012) claims that the purpose of academic journals is to foster communication amongst scholars, to provide a proving ground for practical and theoretical ideas, and to document emerging scientific knowledge. This list begs the question. Is there a hierarchy of purposes, or do they each have…

Cultivating Attitudes of Reflection

Scott Greenberger — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:21:30 -0400

Fostering certain attitudes of reflection increases the likelihood of being effective in reflective thinking. Dewey (1933/1989) stated there are three important attitudes to cultivate, which include open-mindedness, whole-heartedness, and responsbility. Open-mindedness refers to freedom from embracing preconceived notions in light of new ideas or…

What is a Professional Profile?

Scott Greenberger — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 15:00:05 -0400

"Such a profile might have three principal parts. First, to be fair, it would begin with a statement of responsibilities for the period under review, expectations set personally by the scholar or incorporated into a contract negotiated with the institution. Second, for breadth, a biographical sketch would list the scholar's achievements in the…

Peer Review: What does it mean?

Scott Greenberger — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:41:43 -0400

To understand the possible scope of peer reviewing, one must first define "peer." The Boyer model offers a broad definition. "It is important to recognize that appropriate and credible reviewers may be found not only among fellow specialists and current students but also among former students, clients, nonacademic authorities, and practitioners in…

Narrow Scope of Scholarship?

Scott Greenberger — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 19:13:08 -0400

"Such practices [of avoiding subjective or qualitative evaluations of quality in scholarship] have invited abuse. Attempts at objectivity led to a system in which activities that were not so easily quantified--teaching, integrative work, and applied work--were avoided as a waste of valuable time" (Glassick, Huber, & Maeroff, 1997, p. 20).

Glassi…

What is reflection?

Scott Greenberger — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:01:16 -0500

"...reflection is not an end in itself but a tool or vehicle used in the transformation of raw experience into meaning-filled theory that is grounded in experience, informed by existing theory, and serves the larger purpose of the moral growth of the individual and society" (Rodgers, 2002, p. 863).

Rodgers, C. (2002). Defining reflection: Another…

Application: What is it?

Scott Greenberger — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 23:18:43 -0500

Scholarship of Application

"By scholarship of application we mean having professors become what Donald Schön of MIT has called ‘reflective practitioners,’ moving from theory to practice, and from practice back to theory, which in fact makes theory, then, more authentic . . . by making knowledge useful, we mean everything from building better…

Integration: What is it?

Scott Greenberger — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 23:17:02 -0500

Scholarship of Integration

"There is, we say, an urgent need to place discoveries in a larger context and create more interdisciplinary conversations in what Michal Polanyi of the University of Chicago has called the 'overlapping [academic] neighborhoods,' or in the new hyphenated disciplines, in which the energies of several different…

Boyer model: What is the product of scholarship?

Scott Greenberger — Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:18:16 -0500

"Have been made public in some manner, have been subjected to peer review by members of one's intellectual or professional community, and can be cited, refuted, built upon, and shared among members of that community." (Shulman, 1998, p. 5).

Shulman, L. S. (1998). Course anatomy: The dissection and analysis of knowledge through teaching. In P.…