ERIC Number: EJ1360675
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-1742-5964
EISSN: EISSN-1742-5972
Facilitators' Self-Study of a Virtual Adjunct Faculty Self-Study Collaborative
Parsons, Allison Ward; Samaras, Anastasia; Dalbec, Beth; Constantine, Lynne Scott; Evmenova, Anya
Studying Teacher Education, v18 n2 p197-218 2022
A growing number of universities are expanding programs with increased use of adjunct faculty. This research describes our experience developing and enacting a low-resource, scalable peer-to-peer program of research and professional development for adjunct faculty. This transdisciplinary adjunct self-study collaborative simultaneously targeted our understanding of facilitating self-study communities, and the transformation of individual teaching in the service of enhanced student learning while working to create a professional network for adjunct faculty. The study blends existing understanding of facilitating self-study research communities while further understanding the use of critical friends to engage faculty in a more substantive fashion. Facilitating and supporting virtual critical friend collaboration while re-imagining facilitator and participant roles, responsibilities, and expectations are discussed. As universities increasingly employ adjunct faculty, collaborative, cross-disciplinary work has strong potential to cohesively improve teaching in higher education.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Faculty Development, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Communities of Practice, Affordances, Facilitators (Individuals), Educational Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication, Technology Uses in Education, Meetings, Research Methodology, Teacher Improvement, Research Design
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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