CETL Archives
Book Talks Archive - Fall 2000
Scholarship Reconsidered
Authors: Ernest L. Boyer
Scholarship Assessed
Authors: Charles E. Glassick, Mary Taylor Huber
and Gene I. Maeroff
Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Facilitators: Joane McKay (Dean of College of Education)
and Debra Japp (SPC)
Boyer offers a paradigm that recognizes the full range of scholarly activity by college and university faculty, suggesting that four general areas of endeavor be viewed as scholarship: discovery, integration of knowledge, teaching, and service. Boyer questions the existence of a reward system that pushes faculty toward traditional research and publication and away from teaching and other forms of scholarship.
In Scholarship Assessed, Glassick et al begin where Scholarship Reconsidered left off, examining the changing nature of scholarship in today’s colleges and universities, and proposing new standards for assessing scholarship and evaluating faculty with special emphasis on methods for documenting effective scholarship.
(Because this Book Talk is intended to support ongoing discussion of the scholarships, there is no limit to participation in this Book Talk, but all persons must register to participate. The Center budget is limited to purchasing only 15 sets of books for the first 15 participants indicating they DO NOT have the books.) -- Excerpt taken from book jacket.
Faculty Misconduct in Collegiate Teaching
Authors: John Braxton and Alan Bayer
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2000
Facilitators: Fred Hill (LR&TS), Mark Nook
(PHYS) and Judy Foster (ENGL and Faculty Association President).
Location: Watab/Sauk
Room - Atwood Center
In Faculty Misconduct in Collegiate Teaching, higher education researchers John Braxton and Alan Bayer address issues of impropriety and misconduct in the teaching role at the post-secondary level. Braxton and Bayer define and examine norms of teaching behavior: what they are, how they come to exist, and how transgressions are detected and addressed.
Do faculty members across various collegiate settings, for example, share views about appropriate and inappropriate teaching behaviors, as they share expectations regarding actions related to research? And what mechanisms are utilized for correcting inappropriate behavior on the part of college and university teachers?
The authors’ work is based on survey results obtained from faculty members at research universities, liberal arts colleges, and two-year community, junior, and technical colleges. Braxton and Bayer’s focus is on undergraduate teaching in four diciplines: biology, history, mathematics, and psychology. In their analyses, the authors examine how individual, disciplinary, and institutional differences influence professional behavior. Excerpt taken from book jacket
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
Authors: Parker J. Palmer
Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2000
Facilitators: Judy Litterst (SPC) and Pat Hauslein (BIOL)
Location: Watab/Sauk Room at Atwood Center
Teachers choose their vocation for reasons of the heart, because they care deeply about their students and about their subject. But the demands of teaching cause too many educators to lose heart. Is it possible to take heart in teaching once more so that we can continue to do what good teachers always do - give heart to our students?
In the Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer takes teachers on an inner journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and their students - and recovering their passion for one of the most difficult and important human endeavors. “This book builds on a simple premise: good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher.”
Palmer guides us through the inner work of teaching to help us create communities of learning - and he calls on educational institutions to support teachers in this work: “To educate is to guide students on an inner journey toward more truthful ways of seeing and being in the world. How can schools perform their mission without encouraging the guides to scout out that inner terrain?” Excerpt taken from book jacket.
