Open AccessMentoring Within a Community of Practice for Faculty Development: Adding Value to a CTL Role
Author(s) -
Calderwood Patricia E.,
Klaf Suzanna
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/tia2.20022
Subject(s) - community of practice , identity (music) , value (mathematics) , community practice , process (computing) , pedagogy , learning community , sociology , medical education , mathematics education , psychology , engineering ethics , medicine , computer science , engineering , nursing , physics , machine learning , acoustics , pharmacy , operating system
E. R. Smith, P. E. Calderwood, F. Dohm, and P. Gill Lopez's (2013) model of integrated mentoring within a community of practice framework draws attention to how mentoring as practice, identity, and process gives shape and character to a community of practice for higher education faculty and alerts us to several challenges such a framework makes visible. In this exploratory study, we apply the model, and the consideration of the challenges it highlights, to consider how mentoring might figure in and configure a community of practice for faculty development localized in a university Centers for Teaching and Learning ( CTL ) for teaching and learning.