Future Visions for the Sharing Cultures Project

Research Possibilities
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A Turning Point

Research Possibilities

June 8-10, 2005, we attended the Carnegie Foundation's Scholarship for Teaching and Learning Institute, hosted at CCC in Chicago. Here, with the assistance of an experienced research mentor from Carnegie, we identified many research projects that we will both individually and collectively pursue. Some of the possible areas of research include:

• Presentation of the Sharing Cultures Project as an alternative model for transinstitutional exchange
• Examination of student negotiation of transcultural ideas online
• Investigation of the ways this project have affected faculty development
• Longitudinal tracking of student success at each institution
• Re-presenting the notion of student success – not only as the acquisition of “writing skills,” but as cultural negotiation experience
• Theorizing the value and importance of time in an online transnational exchange
• A multi-vocal, multi-perspective volume that invites faculty, administrators and students to not only comment on their Sharing Cultures Project experience, but to present, through their own disciplines, areas of research interest
• Moving from a “those different than me” understanding of diversity to one that seeks to see and honor multiplicity and difference, not from a normative center, but from a subaltern margin

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