Through its impact on students in their lives in and beyond
college, and recognizing the porous boundary between the classroom
and the "real world," SoTL can offer insights into broader societal
issues, offer evidence of activities that facilitate everyday
learning, promote intrinsic motivation, better support people from
underrepresented communities, or uncover the ripple effects of
changing educational environments. It has the potential to deliver
messages of broad public interest. This book extends the
field-building work of Boyer's Scholarship Reconsidered and
Hutchings, Huber, and Ciccone's The Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning Reconsidered by taking a new look at SoTL's ubiquitous
call to "go public." Going Public Reconsidered explores the
potential impacts of knowledge generated by SoTL, considers its
varied public audiences, and offers guidance for the appropriate
media and modes of communication to reach them, including the use
of social media. It urges the SoTL community to step up and
contribute its expertise to conversations about the crises that
face our communities, nations, and the world, and disseminate the
relevance of its research for the world outside of the classroom.
Recognizing that many practitioners find it difficult to
conceptualize the public in public SoTL beyond the higher education
audiences they routinely address, this book focusses on
conceptualizing, planning, and shaping the message, and clarifying
appropriate audiences. It offers guidance on the "who" and the
"how" of public SoTL. Going Public Reconsidered addresses such
questions as: What is happening in the world that would benefit
from a SoTL-informed perspective? What information, insight, or
knowledge does SoTL generate? Who beyond higher education might
care about this information, insight, or knowledge, and why? How
can we adapt to the venues and platforms where they currently get
their information and knowledge? The fifteen editors and
contributors explore the potential and the implications of
extending SoTL beyond its current horizons by reflecting on the
ultimate responsibility of those who profess SoTL; examining SoTL's
audiences and the notion of "the public"; considering what topics
and Grand Challenges public SoTL might address; offering case
studies of outreach in the US and abroad; and providing guidance on
the use of social media for public SoTL - from Twitter, Facebook,
LinkedIn, and YouTube to blogs - as well as on developing
relationships with mainstream media. The book's message is that
public SoTL isn't a radical departure from SoTL-as-we-know-it, but
a natural expansion of its methods and goals, offering the
potential of broadening its impact domestically and
internationally. It offers inspiration and challenges to
practitioners across the globe.
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