Importance of SoTL in Higher Education

Advocacy and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) go together in my artist/researcher/teacher brain like peanut butter and jelly. In this session, I will paint a portrait of SoTL projects from various perspectives by sharing the work of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Advocacy Committee, to Friberg鈥檚 (2016) probing question Might the 4M Framework support SoTL Advocacy? to Chick & Friberg鈥檚 (2022) Going Public Reconsidered: Engaging with the world beyond academe through the scholarship of teaching and learning. Delineating layers of work from the personal to the international will render a composition ready to examine the current work of Scharff鈥檚 (2023) Grand Challenges Phase III.

If you a curious about who does SoTL, why SoTL is important in the zeitgeist of higher education, and how you can participate in public scholarship, then this session might be your bread and butter.    

Diana Gregory, Ph.D.

Diana Gregory headshot

Professor
Art Education
麻豆传媒社区


Diana is an artist/researcher/teacher 鈥� a Professor of Art Education in the 麻豆传媒社区 (KSU) School of Art and Design. In 2023 she was selected for the University of Georgia Regents鈥� Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She served as a Fellow for Creativity and Innovation at KSU鈥檚 Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning from 2012-2014 and was involved in faculty development around a variety of teaching and learning issues. Her research interests include the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), a 21st-century context for creativity, creative leadership and mentoring, conceptual inventiveness and creativity in studio art/art education, and the use of mandalas in art and healing.

She is a member of the ISSoTL Advocacy Committee and currently serves as the art education program coordinator at KSU. She served as curator for the Georgia Art Education Association 2011 Member Show 鈥淯nmasking Creativity: Process and Product.鈥� Her publications include 鈥淒esigning a Master of Art in Art and Design: Student-staff reflections on first-year experience鈥�, 鈥淭he impact of continual reflection: Students-as-partners: Becoming a/r/tographers,鈥� "SoTL in the margins: Teaching-focused role case study鈥�, 鈥淐reativity: Unmasking the Process and Product of Art Educators as Pro-c Artists,鈥� in Enid Zimmerman & Flavia Bastos (Eds., 2014) Connecting Creativity Research and Practice in Art Education: Foundations, Pedagogies, and Contemporary Issues and 鈥淩esting in the Darkness鈥� and 鈥淔alling Apart鈥� in Susanne Fincher (2009) The mandala workbook: A creative guide for self-exploration, balance, and well-being.   
      
Twitter handle: @DianaGregory7