The Benefits of Collaboration: From Curriculum Mapping to a Community of Practice

Autor/inn/en	Kumm, Brian E.; Harmon, Laurlyn K.; Evans, Katherine; Plunkett, Daniel; Widuch, Daniel
Titel	The Benefits of Collaboration: From Curriculum Mapping to a Community of Practice
Quelle	In: Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 34 (2019) 2, S.71-83 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1937-156X
DOI	10.1080/1937156X.2019.1622944
Schlagwörter	Teacher Collaboration; Communities of Practice; Sense of Community; Self Concept; Heuristics; College Curriculum; Undergraduate Study; College Faculty; Leisure Education; Collegiality; Curriculum Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrerkooperation; Community; Selbstkonzept; Heuristik; Grundstudium; Fakultät; Freizeitpädagogik; Kollegialität; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung
Abstract	Collaboration is commonly viewed as a valuable and necessary yet complex and challenging aspect of faculty life in the contemporary academy. The value of collaborative efforts is often tied to tangible, measurable outcomes as a principle marker of success (e.g., increased publications, larger grant awards, and closer conformity to defined learning/project goals). Yet, what of the intangible values? What intrinsic value does collaboration hold for individuals, programs, and project teams? In an effort to explore these questions, we detail a collaborative self-study as a culminating component to a yearlong Curriculum Redesign Grant funded by our University. From our self-study, we forward a view of collaboration as a valuable process precisely because it necessarily moves beyond the tangible, formalized outcomes to involve the emergence of self-awareness, community, belonging, and the formation of heuristics capable of furthering group functioning in other endeavors. Ultimately, we suggest that collaboration is a process, one replete with ambiguity and uncertainty, but one that can yield additional sustained outcomes in the form of a community of practice. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01