Wednesday, September 23, 2:30 pm–4:00 pm
The Formation of Scholarly Teachers: Lessons for Teaching and Learning for the Next Generation
Georgian Room, IMU
Carol Hostetter (Social Work), Brian Powell (Sociology) and Bernice Pescolocido (Sociology)
with graduate students Todd Beer, Kerry Greer, Karen Li, Emily Meanwell, Shiri Noy, Tim O'Brien, Rashawn Ray, Byron Thomas and J.D. Wolfe
Opening Remarks: Sonya Stephens, Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
This presentation shares the results of a collaborative research project which received a 2008 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Leadership Award from Indiana University's Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. The purpose of this SOTL research project was to investigate teaching and research training in the United States. Using the Survey on Doctoral Education, an interdisciplinary team of IU faculty and graduate students engaged in theoretical and empirical analyses of doctoral students' self-reported attitudes, evaluations and outcomes about central issues in graduate education. Overall, the project targeted the structures and processes of graduate education that shape the values, ideas, knowledge and norms of the future professoriate.
Faculty presenters will discuss the overall project goals and the collaborative engagement strategies that helped the graduate student teams develop meaningful SOTL questions and select research methods that took into account special ethical considerations prior to analyzing the data. Then the graduate student teams will summarize their specific research question and related findings. These include the source of gender inequality in scientific careers, graduate student perceptions of mentors and advisors, the effects of delaying graduate education or parenthood on the career trajectory, the importance of peer culture, and the effects of age on professional socialization.
About the Presenters
Carol Hostetter directs the Mack Center for the Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning and sits on the IU Bloomington SOTL Program Advisory Council. She has been highly engaged in SOTL work in research, leadership, and teaching since joining the Indiana University faculty in 2001. Dr. Hostetter teaches a pedagogy class for doctoral students, mentors graduate students of the Preparing Future Faculty program and is a Teaching Mentor for the Bloomington campus division of the School of Social Work, where she develops online courses, and conducts a variety of SOTL projects. She has received numerous grants and awards for her teaching and SOTL research, including the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching for the IUPUI campus, the Herman Frederic Lieber Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence for Indiana University, and the Trustees' Teaching Award in 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009.
Bernice Pescosolido is Distinguished and Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. Trained as a medical sociologist at Yale University, she has focused her research agenda on issues of health, illness and healing, receiving two career awards and a series of grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Fogarty International Center, OBSSR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation, among others. Throughout her career, Dr. Pescosolido has been active in SOTL research and pedagogy, serving as Co-Director of the Sociology Department's Preparing Future Faculty program since 1995. She is also the recipient of various university and disciplinary teaching and mentoring awards. In 2003, she was presented with the Wilbert Hites Mentoring Award from Indiana University; in 2006, she received the American Sociological Association's Hans O. Mauksch Award as well as the Distinguished Faculty Award from IU's College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association; and in 2007 the P.A. Mack Award for Distinguished Service to Teaching from IU's Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching. Most recently, in 2009, along with her PFF Co-Director Brian Powell, Dr. Pescosolido was the inaugural recipient of the Carla B. Howery Award for Developing Teacher-Scholars from the American Sociological Association.
Brian Powell is James H. Rudy Professor and Co-Director of the Preparing Future Faculty program at the Department of Sociology of Indiana University. Professor Powell's research has focused on family sociology, sociology of education, gender, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. With grants from the National Science Foundation, American Education Research Association, and the Spencer Foundation, Professor Powell has examined how families shape children's educational success. In addition, he currently is collaborating on a series of projects that explore Americans' views regarding various family issues. Among these projects is a forthcoming book, Who Counts as Family? Contemporary Struggles over Same-Sex Relationships and the Definition of Family. Recent studies also have explored how professors view grading and 'grade inflation' and the relative influence of parents and schools on childhood obesity. Professor Powell is the recipient of multiple teaching and mentoring awards, among them, Indiana University's Wilbert Hite Mentoring Award, the IU President's Award for Distinguished Teaching, and most recently (with his PFF program Co-Director Bernice Pescosolido) the American Sociological Association's inaugural Carla B. Howery Award for Developing Teacher-Scholars.
