The Hospitality of the Commons: A Collaborative Reflection on a SoTL Conference
This is a large-scale, multi-author collaborative autoethnographic study exploring the concept of building a tangible teaching commons on the example of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Commons Conference. The project organizers sought to provide a big tent and extended an invitation...
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| author | Laura Cruz Eileen Grodziak Diana Botnaru Deborah Walker Trent W. Maurer Alan Altany Betty Abraham-Settles Michelle Amos Kimberly Bunch-Crump Alan Cook Heidi Eisenreich Diana Gregory Michael L. Howell Ioney James Shainaz Landge Jane Lynes Joyce Pompey Brendan L. Shapiro Allison Smith Brenda Thomas Felicity M. Turner Ellen H. Williams Robin Gerchman Miiriam Horne Richard Hughes Alandra Kahl Rebecca Layson David X. Lemmons Jeffrey A. Stone Elizabeth VanDeusen Yue Zhang |
| author_facet | Laura Cruz Eileen Grodziak Diana Botnaru Deborah Walker Trent W. Maurer Alan Altany Betty Abraham-Settles Michelle Amos Kimberly Bunch-Crump Alan Cook Heidi Eisenreich Diana Gregory Michael L. Howell Ioney James Shainaz Landge Jane Lynes Joyce Pompey Brendan L. Shapiro Allison Smith Brenda Thomas Felicity M. Turner Ellen H. Williams Robin Gerchman Miiriam Horne Richard Hughes Alandra Kahl Rebecca Layson David X. Lemmons Jeffrey A. Stone Elizabeth VanDeusen Yue Zhang |
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| description | This is a large-scale, multi-author collaborative autoethnographic study exploring the concept of building a tangible teaching commons on the example of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Commons Conference. The project organizers sought to provide a big tent and extended an invitation to attendees to respond to a series of writing prompts about their conference experience. Collaborative writing took place asynchronously over an approximately 60-day period following the close of the conference and generated ≈ 20,000 words. This corpus became the basis for a three-stage emergent coding process, conducted by the four-member steering commit-tee, which led to the identification of three primary themes from the collective experiences of the 2023 SoTL Commons Conference attendees: SoTL as pedagogy, SoTL as a community of scholars, and SoTL as scholarship. Despite some limitations to what the sense of commons represents, the project highlighted the respondents’ spirit of appreciative inquiry, a signature mindset of SoTL and engaged participants who were new to the field. We argue that it acted as a form of academic hospitality itself; enabling the sharing of practice, deepening of reflection, strengthening of research skills, fostering of social connections, and, by extension, the advancement of the field as a community of scholars. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-355d66d76c7247b9940a4376f53725d62023-12-01T19:05:05ZengGeorgia Southern UniversityInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning1931-47442023-12-0117211010.20429/ijsotl.2023.17207The Hospitality of the Commons: A Collaborative Reflection on a SoTL ConferenceLaura CruzEileen GrodziakDiana BotnaruDeborah WalkerTrent W. MaurerAlan AltanyBetty Abraham-SettlesMichelle AmosKimberly Bunch-CrumpAlan CookHeidi EisenreichDiana GregoryMichael L. HowellIoney JamesShainaz LandgeJane LynesJoyce PompeyBrendan L. ShapiroAllison SmithBrenda ThomasFelicity M. TurnerEllen H. WilliamsRobin GerchmanMiiriam HorneRichard HughesAlandra KahlRebecca LaysonDavid X. LemmonsJeffrey A. StoneElizabeth VanDeusenYue ZhangThis is a large-scale, multi-author collaborative autoethnographic study exploring the concept of building a tangible teaching commons on the example of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Commons Conference. The project organizers sought to provide a big tent and extended an invitation to attendees to respond to a series of writing prompts about their conference experience. Collaborative writing took place asynchronously over an approximately 60-day period following the close of the conference and generated ≈ 20,000 words. This corpus became the basis for a three-stage emergent coding process, conducted by the four-member steering commit-tee, which led to the identification of three primary themes from the collective experiences of the 2023 SoTL Commons Conference attendees: SoTL as pedagogy, SoTL as a community of scholars, and SoTL as scholarship. Despite some limitations to what the sense of commons represents, the project highlighted the respondents’ spirit of appreciative inquiry, a signature mindset of SoTL and engaged participants who were new to the field. We argue that it acted as a form of academic hospitality itself; enabling the sharing of practice, deepening of reflection, strengthening of research skills, fostering of social connections, and, by extension, the advancement of the field as a community of scholars.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol17/iss2/7/ |
| spellingShingle | Laura Cruz Eileen Grodziak Diana Botnaru Deborah Walker Trent W. Maurer Alan Altany Betty Abraham-Settles Michelle Amos Kimberly Bunch-Crump Alan Cook Heidi Eisenreich Diana Gregory Michael L. Howell Ioney James Shainaz Landge Jane Lynes Joyce Pompey Brendan L. Shapiro Allison Smith Brenda Thomas Felicity M. Turner Ellen H. Williams Robin Gerchman Miiriam Horne Richard Hughes Alandra Kahl Rebecca Layson David X. Lemmons Jeffrey A. Stone Elizabeth VanDeusen Yue Zhang The Hospitality of the Commons: A Collaborative Reflection on a SoTL Conference International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning |
| title | The Hospitality of the Commons: A Collaborative Reflection on a SoTL Conference |
| title_full | The Hospitality of the Commons: A Collaborative Reflection on a SoTL Conference |
| title_fullStr | The Hospitality of the Commons: A Collaborative Reflection on a SoTL Conference |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Hospitality of the Commons: A Collaborative Reflection on a SoTL Conference |
| title_short | The Hospitality of the Commons: A Collaborative Reflection on a SoTL Conference |
| title_sort | hospitality of the commons a collaborative reflection on a sotl conference |
| url | https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol17/iss2/7/ |
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