Personal Reflection: Reflections on SoTL by a Casual Lecturer: Personal Benefits, Long-Term Challenges
I have just completed my second year as a casual lecturer and have enjoyed engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). However, my casual status has brought a number of challenges to ensuring my SoTL work has both long term and institutional impact. As the trend for casualisation in...
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Georgia Southern University
2011-07-01
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| description | I have just completed my second year as a casual lecturer and have enjoyed engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). However, my casual status has brought a number of challenges to ensuring my SoTL work has both long term and institutional impact. As the trend for casualisation in higher education continues across the world, I believe that the potential detriment it can cause to SoTL needs to be addressed by the SoTL community. This paper describes firstly a SoTL project I have carried out using a wiki-based assessment method. Secondly, it presents my reflections on the difficulties I face in continuing my SoTL work and feeding it into my department. Finally, it argues that employment on a casual basis can restrict SoTL potential and, consequently, it is time to ask how SoTL can still flourish in this type of environment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0b3f91f68e4740ddb6537a1f83f5aa922022-12-21T21:49:32ZengGeorgia Southern UniversityInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning1931-47442011-07-015210.20429/ijsotl.2011.050224Personal Reflection: Reflections on SoTL by a Casual Lecturer: Personal Benefits, Long-Term ChallengesKerry DobbinsI have just completed my second year as a casual lecturer and have enjoyed engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). However, my casual status has brought a number of challenges to ensuring my SoTL work has both long term and institutional impact. As the trend for casualisation in higher education continues across the world, I believe that the potential detriment it can cause to SoTL needs to be addressed by the SoTL community. This paper describes firstly a SoTL project I have carried out using a wiki-based assessment method. Secondly, it presents my reflections on the difficulties I face in continuing my SoTL work and feeding it into my department. Finally, it argues that employment on a casual basis can restrict SoTL potential and, consequently, it is time to ask how SoTL can still flourish in this type of environment.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol5/iss2/24Casual workforceWikiSoTL challengesIsolation |
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| title | Personal Reflection: Reflections on SoTL by a Casual Lecturer: Personal Benefits, Long-Term Challenges |
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