International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 3, Number 2, July 2009

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Essays About SoTL

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Communities, Voices and Portals of Engagement

What are the portals through which we uncover new perspectives, new approaches and new audiences for sharing our scholarship? The scholarship of teaching and learning creates opportunities for the emergence of new communities of practice across disciplines. Specific “portals of engagement” invite new partnerships for engagement, along with the emergence of “hybrid pedagogies” that evolve from Schulman’s (2005) signature pedagogies. How effective are these hybrids? What are the common elements that catalyze learning during the process of engagement? This essay explores these portals and their role in fostering scholarship across disciplinary and cultural pedagogies.

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Bio

Kathy Takayama
Brown University
Providence,Rhode Island, USA
kathy_takayama@brown.edu

I received my Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from The University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey. I was a faculty member at the University of New South Wales in Australia where I taught Microbiology. Currently, I am the Associate Director for the Life & Physical Sciences at the Brown University Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning. My SoTL publications are on visualizations in science and on online inquiry. I am a Carnegie Scholar, a National Academies Education Fellow in the Life Sciences, and have received institutional and national teaching awards. I am involved in the SoTL community as a founding member of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, and through my work with the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning, and the NSF Biology Scholars Program.
Website: http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Kathy_Takayama

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