Coming out of graduate school and dissertation writing, a lonely place, I looked forward to joining a professional community at my university and in my College of Education. Based upon my previous cross-disciplinary collaborations as a high school science teacher, I knew that professional collaboration with others outside my specific discipline could be rewarding and overcome the isolation of classroom teaching. I visited with the folks in the College of Science, making connections across our mostly varied but occasionally corresponding interests. As the only science educator in my department, I sought ways to collaborate across fields by building upon our common interests in teacher education and educational practices. However, I found working in higher education to be more isolated and isolating than high school teaching. People tended to live behind closed office doors and come together mostly for meetings that dealt with programmatic or procedural details rather than scholarly conversations. As such, I was disappointed to find the answer to my question, “Where is the community I can join?” was, with a few exceptions, “Neither in my university nor my college.”
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Nelson, T.H. (2009). Building Leadership Capacity by Nurturing Community. In: Wieseman, K.C., Weinburgh, M.H. (eds) Women’s Experiences in Leadership in K-16 Science Education Communities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2239-4_13
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