A Portrait of SoTL Advocacy: Grassroots to International Challenges

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’s (2016) probing question Might the 4M Framework support SoTL Advocacy? to Chick & Friberg’s (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’s (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.    

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  Diana Gregory, Ph.D.

  Professor
  Art Education
  Kennesaw State

  Diana is an artist/researcher/teacher – a Professor of Art Education in the Kennesaw State University (KSU) School of Art and Design. In 2023 she was selected for the University of Georgia Regents’ Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. She served as a Fellow for Creativity and Innovation at KSU’s 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 “Unmasking Creativity: Process and Product.” Her publications include “Designing a Master of Art in Art and Design: Student-staff reflections on first-year experience”, “The impact of continual reflection: Students-as-partners: Becoming a/r/tographers,” "SoTL in the margins: Teaching-focused role case study”, “Creativity: Unmasking the Process and Product of Art Educators as Pro-c Artists,” in Enid Zimmerman & Flavia Bastos (Eds., 2014) Connecting Creativity Research and Practice in Art Education: Foundations, Pedagogies, and Contemporary Issues and “Resting in the Darkness” and “Falling Apart” in Susanne Fincher (2009) The mandala workbook: A creative guide for self-exploration, balance, and well-being.   
        
  Twitter handle: @DianaGregory7 
  Academia.edu: https://kennesaw.academia.edu/DianaGregory