Presentation by Dan W. Butin Dean, School of Education, Merrimack College Executive Director, Center for Engaged Democracy For Indiana University’s Center for Innovative Teaching & Learning Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Series March 29, 2013
This Should be Easy…But We Have Reached an “Engagement Ceiling” The Potential for the Engaged Campus What’s at Stake
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING & LEARNING PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH SERVICE- LEARNING COMMUNITY- BASED RESEARCH PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
RELEVANCE: Academic integrity RECIPROCITY: Meaningful community voice, impact, and participation REFLECTION: Experience is never transparent RESPECT: Avoiding the “community as lab” phenomenon
RESEARCH- BASED NRC’s How We Learn SL “At a Glance” NSSE EMPIRICALLY- DRIVEN UCLA’s HERI Campus Compact AAC&U POLICY- SUPPORTED Carnegie Kettering US Dept. of Ed.
Rhetoric/Reality Gap Minimal community impact (80% of CBR projects have no community outcomes; Stoeker, 2010) Minimal social & political framing (<5% of students viewed SL from such a perspective; Westheimer & Kahne, 2004) Institutional Diversification (>40% community colleges, 12% for-profits, 3% Liberal Arts; NCES 2013) Shallow Institutionalization Self-selected audience (<8% of student and faculty engagement; Campus Compact, 2013) Student demographics ( 50% need remedial education; NCES, 2013) Faculty work (>67% non-tenure-stream & >80% lecture; NCES 2011 & 2007)
BREADTHDEPTH DiffuseFocus AnswersQuestions ToolkitsHandbooks A CampaignA Discipline (or SoTL) SOCIAL MOVEMENT INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENT
CONTENT KNOWLEDGE TECHNICAL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT & CULTURAL COMPETENCY CULTURAL SOCIAL & POLITICAL ACTIVISM/SOCIAL JUSTICE POLITICAL COGNITIVE DISSONANCE ANTI-FOUNDATIONAL
As the question Depth of practice As critical inquiry Pedagogical legitimacy As embedded Course integrity As text academic freedom “who benefits?” “can you walk away?”
Is there a place for the civic in a place-less world?