Collaborative Book Chapter with Stephanie West-Puckett and Matthew Herrmann
The three of us just submitted our final revisions for our chapter in the upcoming book Contingent Faculty Publishing in Community: Case Studies for Successful Collaborations being published by Palgrave Press. Check out the abstract for our chapter below.
Knotworking with the National Writing Project: A Method for Professionalizing Contingent Faculty
Abstract: Meaningful professional development takes place in level spaces, not in the tightly controlled hierarchies of higher education. Contingent faculty should be actively engaged in questioning the purposes and goals of their professional learning experiences, and writing programs should think carefully about principles of participatory design when co-constructing professional development offerings. In this chapter, we explore and share stories on how institutional and extra-institutional spaces like the National Writing Project provide the tools and opportunities to explore, reflect on, and reconsider the socially constructed professional identities that brought us to teaching and working with writers.
Knotworking with the National Writing Project: A Method for Professionalizing Contingent Faculty
Abstract: Meaningful professional development takes place in level spaces, not in the tightly controlled hierarchies of higher education. Contingent faculty should be actively engaged in questioning the purposes and goals of their professional learning experiences, and writing programs should think carefully about principles of participatory design when co-constructing professional development offerings. In this chapter, we explore and share stories on how institutional and extra-institutional spaces like the National Writing Project provide the tools and opportunities to explore, reflect on, and reconsider the socially constructed professional identities that brought us to teaching and working with writers.