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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