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Date issued: 2020; 2020
Description: Podcast and transcript together supporting the publication appearing in the Imaging SoTL journal.
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes; Business and Communication Studies; Health, Community and Education

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo
Date issued: 2015
Description: The emerging field of SoTL is an inherently interdisciplinary endeavor, embracing a diverse range of research methods. It desires to be hospitable to a range of disciplinary differences in world views. However, the field lacks coherence in its conceptualization and communication. Ongoing debates in the community concern the use of theory, as well as definitional questions of what constitutes SoTL and the nature of its purpose. This article offers a framework for conceptualizing the field, which attempts to broadly delineate the available theories underlying and methodologies appropriate to studying teaching and learning, while intending to be hospitable to a broad range of diverse...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo; Karen Manarin; Miriam Carey; Jim Zimmer
Date issued: 2016
Description: This chapter briefly describes the SoTL research development program and context at Mount Royal University, reports initial results from a study of the program’s impact on participants’ teaching and scholarly activities, and situates the findings regarding individual impact, department-level impact, institution-level impact, and discipline-level impact within the current literature and the Canadian context described in this special issue
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young; Yasmin Dean; Melanie Rathburn; Jennifer Pettit; Margot Underwood; Judy Gleeson; Roberta Lexier; Victoria Calvert; Patti Clayton
Date issued: 2015
Description: Faculty learning in Global Service-Learning is an important area of research because understanding how faculty develop their practice is an important first step in improving student learning outcomes and relationships with community members. Enacting reciprocity in service-learning can be particularly troublesome because it requires faculty to learn to develop courses and partnerships in counternormative ways. This article reports on an approach to investigating and generating faculty learning, in our case about the threshold concept of reciprocity, through a group self-study process that included a new-to-the-field interview method developed for Decoding the Disciplines (Pace &...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Deb Bennett; Karen Dodge
Date issued: 2014
Description: “What brings you here today?” is a familiar question in a health clinic in Canada, but it may not be one that comes immediately to the mind of an internationally educated health professional. The way health professionals communicate with patients in their cultures can sound overly direct in Canadian clinics. “Why are you here?” would be typically asked to patients in settings such as the Ukraine and Egypt. A stepping stone that supports the understanding of linguistic appropriacy and the Canadian health care context is offered at the Languages Institute of Mount Royal University, Calgary. The Communication Skills for Health Professionals (CSHP) project teaches language and communication...
Type: article
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes