Filling the Practice -Theory Gap: Engaged Scholarship and the Imperative of the Scholar-Practitioner

Facilitated by Patrick M. Green, EdD, the Executive Director of the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship (CELTS), and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Loyola University Chicago.

Engaged scholarship invites us to address the intersections of practice, community, theory, collaborative knowledge creation, research, and our identities as scholars, practitioners, and everything in between. This session invites you to engage in reflection on how your identity as a scholar-practitioner may open up lines of inquiry for you to connect your practice to scholarship – and thus, fill the theory-practice gap. Drawing from your local experience as a source of knowledge, how does your context, experience, and practice contribute to your role as a scholar-practitioner? Have you considered potentially writing about your program, course, or campus initiative related to community engagement, pedagogy, experiential learning, high-impact practices, or generally the relationship between campuses and communities? How can you translate your own inquiry stances to scholarship goals that contribute to the field? Discuss how your practice connects to your ability to explore research and scholarship. Drawing from a practitioner-scholar inquiry framework, hear from Dr. Patrick M. Green, Editor of CUMU’s Metropolitan Universities Journal to connect your practice to your scholarship and work toward potential publication pathways.