Building capacity for excellence in teaching, learning, partnerships, and scholarship grounded in democratic engagement
... through ...
CONSULTING ~ PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ~ CO-CREATIVE PRACTITIONER-SCHOLARSHIP
... in such areas as ...
Introductory & advanced SLCE
Experiential learning
Integrated design of courses and curricula
Partnerships in SLCE
Student leadership in SLCE
Democratic civic engagement
Civic learning
Critical thinking
Critical reflection
SLCE program development
SLCE as scholarship (SoTL, SoE, CES)
Carnegie Community Engagement Classification
Institutional transformation
Assessment (of learning, impact, partnerships)
SLCE & sustainability
SLCE & ethical inquiry
… and whatever else you want to do together
Patti H. Clayton
From the beginning, my colleagues and I defined ourselves as a learning community of practitioner-scholars dedicated to continual learning and improvement in our community-engaged teaching and learning practice and hoping to contribute in meaningful ways to the growth of associated scholarship. Co-creation—of courses, professional development, infrastructure, partnerships and projects, resource materials, and scholarship—remains my defining modus operandi. The associated identities among all partners as co-learners, co-educators, and co-generators of knowledge are at the very heart of the democratic curricular engagement that I seek to cultivate and support. Let's see what we can create together!
Take a look at this poem, by SLCE co-inquirer Deanna Shoemaker, for a sense of what we mean by "co-creation.”
"Co-" as my co-creators and I understood it early on in our work (excerpted from a chapter co-authored with 3 undergraduate leaders):
“We understand [curricular engagement] to be most fundamentally a relational process focused on capacity-building and grounded in the principles of servant leadership: all participants are engaged in relationships not only in which all contribute and all benefit but [also] of mutual learning, growth, and change. For us, mutual transformation through a process of co-creation in the context of a mentoring community is a powerful framework: together, we have undertaken—and are still engaged in—a shared developmental journey that has transformed us, our relationships, our fellow students and faculty/staff, and our program itself.... Ultimately, students best undertake a developmental journey when those who support and mentor them are also striving for growth through the same process.”
The 220 individuals (students, staff, community members, and faculty) I had published and/or facilitated conference sessions with by 2018 — a story of co-creation honored by the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement with its Distinguished Career Recognition.