Faculty Development as Mentoring

• In Event: 29.091 - Poster Session 4
  In Poster Session: 29.091-3 - Developing Indentity and Practice as College Teachers

Abstract

Smith, Calderwood, Dohm and 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 center for teaching and learning

Authors

• Patricia E. Calderwood, Fairfield University

• Suzanna Klaf, Fairfield University