Two NAFSA TLS Opportunities

o   International Leadership Opportunity

Join the new Emerging Scholar-Practitioner Working Group (deadline Jan. 15, 2020)

TLS is developing a new working group devoted to enhancing support and resources for emerging scholar-practitioners! The Emerging Scholar - Practitioner Working Group will develop and implement a strategy to update the current resources and supports available to emerging scholar-practitioners at www.nafsa.org/GradStudents, as well as other opportunities to better support and engage graduate students at all levels! Graduate students, faculty, staff, practitioners, and anyone else interested are invited to apply here.

è Apply to join: Application Form (deadline Jan. 15)

o   Innovative Research Award Opportunity

Submit applications/nominations for the TLS Innovative Research in International Education Award (deadline Feb. 1, 2020)

This TLS award celebrates new and innovative research with potential or demonstrated impact in the field of international education. Submit an article or chapter of an edited book for consideration for the 2020 award!

è Apply for the award: Application Form (deadline Feb. 1)

è Nominate a colleague: Nomination Form (deadline Feb. 1)

"Foundational Reading for Education Abroad Scholar-Practitioners" by Anthony Ogden, Ph.D.

Recently, Dr. Anthony Ogden, Executive Director of Education Abroad and Exchanges at Michigan State University, posted to SECUSS-L informing the field of his updated Foundational Reading for Education Abroad Scholar-Practitioners resource.

This nine page resource is an extraordinary compilation of literature and resources that every colleague in the field of education abroad should read or at least have knowledge of their existence.  Are you trying to break into the field of education abroad or more broadly into the field of international education?  If so, pick a reading off this list and start consuming!  Are you teaching a course on the internationalization/globalization of higher education?  If so, at a minimum link to and highlight this resource but more importantly you can find your required readings among the 77 listed readings and six key references.

Ogden breaks the readings down by the following 21 major knowledge areas followed by the key references:

1. Comprehensive Internationalization
2. International and Comparative Education
3. U.S. Education Abroad History
4. Evaluation and Assessment
5. Student Success
6. Curriculum Integration
7. Student Learning and Development
8. Student Advising and Support
9. Ongoing Orientation
10. Intercultural Competency
11. Global Citizenship
12. Cultural Learning and engagement
13. Diversity and Underrepresentation
14. Career Development and Employability
15. Academic Engagement and Development
16. Language Acquisition
17. Experiential Learning
18. Global Health Programming
19. Short-Term Education Abroad
20. General Research and Scholarship
21. General Professional
Key References

The list of authors of these foundational readings are a who's who of scholar-practitioners in the field and there are many colleagues that I have collaborated with on projects, co-authored book chapters or as the book editor, committees and task forces, presentations and workshops or in other endeavors such as Skyping in to a graduate level course as a guest speaker on international education.  Some of these authors are good friends and we have collaborated more in depth while some of these authors and I have only shared a microphone during a conference panel presentation and haven't collaborated beyond being invited to and showing up to the panel.  To be sure, there are many authors of these foundational readings that I know well but have yet to formally collaborate and there are others I have yet to meet in person or formally interact with electronically via email or Twitter or via some NAFSA online discussion forum but I hope to some day!  A list of the authors who I have collaborated with, large & small, follows (in no particular order):

Anthony Ogden

Gary Rhodes

Martin Tillman

Darla Deardorff

Bruce La Brack

Hans de Wit

the late Tony Adams

William Gertz

Michael Woolf

Bill Hoffa

Davina Potts

Bernhard Streitwieser

Gayle Woodruff

Michael Vande Berg

Martha Johnson

Margaret Wiedenhoeft

Mell Bolen

Lilli Engle

Victor Savicki

Richard Sutton

Gerald Fry

Elizabeth Stallman

John Hudzik

Jae-Eun Jon

I've been very fortunate to cross paths with so many wonderful people and contributors to the field of international education!

New Book: International Higher Education's Scholar-Practitioners: Bridging Research and Practice

Edited by BERNHARD STREITWIESER and ANTHONY C. OGDEN

The idea of the professional who bridges both research and practice has been largely overlooked and at times even disregarded by the academic and administrative structures that govern activity in higher education today. In international higher education, the number of students who now engage in mobility and exchange has expanded globally, along with the administrative cadre that manages all facets of internationalization, and the quickly growing scholarly attention to understanding the phenomenon. In this process, two distinct professional categories have emerged: those who ‘study it’ and those who ‘do it’ – the scholars and the practitioners. Practitioners are seen as those who manage the daily logistical flow of students and personnel around the globe, while scholars are seen as those who conduct research, collect and analyze data, and publish findings to inform, improve, and justify the activity. Yet this dichotomy is overly simplistic, outdated, and excludes the large and growing class of hybrid scholar-practitioners who now engage regularly in both kinds of activity.

It is this rapidly growing population of bridge builders that are profiled and discussed in this book through critical essays on the notion of the scholar-practitioner and its implication for the further development of international higher education. The chapters include detailed analyses from university faculty, senior international officers and other high-level administrators, directors of research centers, key leaders from influential professional associations and private organizations, managers of study abroad and exchange, and graduate students. This book launches a much-needed dialogue about the perception and reality, potential and promise, of the scholar-practitioner in higher education today. It will be of relevance to a wide variety of readers, from those within universities and organizations to those who are outside observers of higher education. 

Contents and Authors

Hans de Wit Foreword

Bernhard Streitwieser & Anthony C. Ogden International Higher Education’s Scholar-Practitioners: bridging research and practice

Bernhard Streitwieser & Anthony C. Ogden Heralding the Scholar-Practitioner in International Higher Education

John K. Hudzik Internationalization Practitioners and Scholarship: dichotomies and crosswalks

John D. Heyl The Emergence of the Scholar-Practitioner Identity in International Education: a 25-year review

David Comp A Historical Overview of International Education Scholarship and the Role of the Scholar-Practitioner

Donna Scarboro The Benefits and Limits of Scholarship and Self-expression among International Education Professionals

Giselda Beaudin & Louis Berends The Education Abroad Practitioner as Transdisciplinary Scholar

David B. Austell Scholar-Practitioners and the ISSS Professional

Mandy Reinig The Small/One-person Office: the challenge of being both practitioner and scholar

Rosalind Latiner Raby Studying Community Colleges: administrator, practitioner and scholar voices promoting international education

Brian Whalen The Scholar-Practitioner’s Role in Advancing Education Abroad Quality Assurance

Bruce La Brack The Interplay and Co-evolution of Theory and Practice in Preparing Students for International Education Experiences: a retrospective analysis

Elizabeth Brewer Lessons from a Late-blooming International Education Scholar-Practitioner for Combining Practice with Scholarship

Richard Slimbach Deschooling International Education: toward an alternative paradigm of practice

Michael Woolf An Unholy Trinity: conservative dynamics and the scholar-practitioner

Gregory Light Blind Spots, Troublesome Narratives and Arrested Fields: towards the scholar-practitioner

Jane Edwards The Scholar-Practitioner and Translating Research into Working Practice

Darla K. Deardorff Key Theoretical Frameworks Guiding the Scholar-Practitioner in International Education

Taylor C. Woodman & Katherine N. Punteney Graduate Education in Context: preparing scholar-practitioners as future international education leaders

Tamar Breslauer A Librarian’s Lens: thoughts for scholar-practitioners

Fiona Hunter & Laura E. Rumbley Exploring a Possible Future for the Scholar-Practitioner

All contributors Pathways of the Scholar-Practitioner

2016 paperback 340 pages £39.00
ISBN 978-1-873927-77-9

FREE delivery on all orders and all books are sent AIRMAIL worldwide

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Disclaimer:  I have a chapter in this book and I receive no profit from the publication or sales of this book.

One of my Favorite Places for International Education Researching and Writing

Remembering one of my summer 2015 work stations on the shores of Lake Michigan in Door County, Wisconsin where I began work on my 'A Historical Overview of International Education Scholarship and the Role of the Scholar–Practitioner' chapter for the forthcoming book "International Higher Education's Scholar-Practitioners: Bridging Research and Practice".  Soon I'll begin work on a new book chapter that I will co-write with two other colleagues (unable to disclose chapter title or focus of book at this time) but I won't have as nice of an "office" this time around!

That IHEC Blog post on the computer screen is about and includes photos of my thirteen year old daughter heading off on her twelve day service learning trip to Ecuador last August!