Using communities of practice to explore departmental values
written by
Jessica R. Changstrom, Mary Bridget Kustusch, and Eleanor C. Sayre
We use a communities of practice framework to explore how departments value different constituent groups, focusing on faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students. Through a collaborative, autoethnographic, contrastive case study of two physics departments, we analyze the inter- and intra-constituency interactions and shared practice of each community, demonstrating how each department centers or peripheralizes constituent groups. We argue that how each department enacts their community of practice demonstrates a foundational shared value: faculty autonomy for one and pastoral care of undergraduates for the other.
Physics Education Research Conference 2022
Part of the PER Conference series Grand Rapids, MI: July 13-14, 2022 Pages 94-99
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Author = "Jessica R. Changstrom and Mary Bridget Kustusch and Eleanor Sayre",
Title = {Using communities of practice to explore departmental values},
BookTitle = {Physics Education Research Conference 2022},
Pages = {94-99},
Address = {Grand Rapids, MI},
Series = {PER Conference},
Month = {July 13-14},
Year = {2022}
}
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