{"id":13778,"date":"2013-03-25t09:10:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-25t14:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=13778"},"modified":"2013-03-29t09:28:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29t14:28:37","slug":"sotl-spotlight-teaching-learning-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2013\/03\/sotl-spotlight-teaching-learning-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"sotl spotlight: teaching & learning inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"sotl<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

by nancy chick, cft assistant director<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

nancy <\/a>is the\u00a0author<\/a><\/em> <\/em>of a variety of sotl articles and book chapters, as well as\u00a0co-editor<\/a><\/em> <\/em>of two books on signature pedagogies and co-editor of <\/em>teaching & learning inquiry<\/a>, the official journal of\u00a0the international society for the scholarship<\/em> <\/em>of teaching and learning (issotl<\/a>).<\/em> “sotl spotlight” is her ongoing feature on the cft website. <\/em><\/p>\n

i just put the first issue of teaching & learning inquiry<\/a><\/em> to bed. \u00a0it’ll be published by the end of the month. \u00a0as a literary scholar, my first thoughts went to anne bradstreet’s poem “the author to her book<\/a>,” but i quickly noticed the differences: \u00a0unlike bradstreet’s speaker, who humbly calls her poem the “ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain” and “my rambling brat…unfit for light,” the journal is both well-formed and\u00a0fit for light, and it’s definitely not\u00a0the child of a single parent.\u00a0in fact, i’m struck by all of the hands it took to produce the journal.
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first and foremost, the last year and a half included many hours of close work–online, on the phone, and in person at issotl<\/a>‘s\u00a0annual conference in edmonton, alberta–with my co-editor gary poole<\/a><\/strong> (psychology, university of british columbia). we started by putting together a robust editorial board<\/a><\/strong> with\u00a0representation\"\"<\/a><\/span> from <\/span>issotl’s international regions (us, canada, australasia, and europe), the entire career spectrum (from student to retiree, and all between), a breadth of disciplines and professions, and a variety of institutional types. with the consistent help of these 36 women and men, we <\/span>conceptualized, planned, and selected the inaugural articles for the journal.<\/span><\/p>\n

before any of us, though, there was issotl’s going public committee<\/strong>, which developed the proposal that issotl should sponsor an official journal. they worked with the issotl board of directors for at least four years before deciding to move forward. (they all wanted the right people, the right vision, and a university press as the publisher.)<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>since september, gary and i have also been grateful for the help of <\/span>katie headrick taylor<\/a><\/strong> (teaching and learning, vanderbilt), a graduate teaching fellow at the cft, who has served as <\/span>tli<\/em>‘s editorial manager. she ushered the manuscripts through the entire publication process and worked closely (again, at a distance) with judith caldwell<\/strong>,\u00a0our\u00a0publication manager at<\/span> indiana university press. for the aesthetics, iu press’s marketing manager<\/span> linda bannister <\/strong>designed the cover (see image, above) and every detail of the pages for the journal.<\/span><\/p>\n

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doing the final edits at my desk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

then, of course,\u00a0there are the authors. the authors! \u00a0for the inaugural issue, we invited pieces from some of the big names in sotl and from the issotl membership. we asked them to\u00a0\u201cexplore sotl\u2019s traditions or its cutting edges, its highest moments or the challenges that remain, its efforts to go public or its impacts in campus classrooms or hallways, its relevant constituencies or its unexplored audiences.\u201d <\/span>tli<\/em>‘s\u00a0table of contents<\/a> is now populated by the likes of\u00a0carolin kreber, barbara cambridge, jan parker, daniel bernstein, jo\u00eblle fanghanel, linda hodges, keith trigwell, joy mighty, lorraine gilpin, erik blair, <\/strong>and peter felten. <\/strong><\/span>and <\/span>harry hubball, marion l. pearson, <\/span><\/strong>and<\/span> anthony clarke; <\/span>barbara mae gayle, nancy randall, lin langley, <\/span><\/strong>and <\/span>raymond preiss; <\/span>phillip dawson, margaret bearman, david j. boud, matt hall, elizabeth k. molloy, sue bennett, <\/span><\/strong>and <\/span>gordon joughin;<\/span><\/strong> and <\/span>chng huan hoon <\/span><\/strong>and<\/span> peter looker<\/span><\/strong>. to say we are honored to have these authors contributing to the first issue is an understatement. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>when it is published in a couple of weeks, i’ll dig into the content by sharing the article we’ve selected as the free online sample. until then, i’m going to rest after a busy but exciting year. \u00a0oh, but before i do, i have one important correction: <\/span>we <\/em><\/strong>just put the first issue of\u00a0teaching & learning inquiry<\/em><\/span> to bed.<\/span><\/p>\n

for more information about the journal, including subscriptions, visit tli<\/em>‘s official website<\/a>, and\u00a0“like” us on facebook<\/a>.
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