Resumen de Enhancing teaching & learning by developing scholarshipin staff through facilitated collaborative writing retreats
A. Divan, Juan Antonio Rivas Pérez, K. Tapley, D. Lewis
An alternative model of writing retreats is being established by the Leeds Institute for TeachingExcellence (LITE) to promote scholarship in teaching and learning. These comprise of individualsfrom different disciplines coming together to research and write about teaching and learning topicsthrough structured writing retreats and pre- and post-retreat activities. The initiative encouragescross-institutional collaboration in teaching and learning research and discourse by facilitating highqualitypublication outputs. Ultimately the intention is to increase capacity and competence in learningand teaching scholarship through supported writing and mentorship. Our model is informed by theexperience of the emerging literature on international collaborative writing groups (Marquis, 2014;Motley et al., in press) and on writing retreats (Kornhaber et al., 2016). In particular, our ethos isinspired by the central theme emerging from the work of Vince and Reynolds (2010) who highlightthe transformational potential of moving beyond individual, private practitioner reflection towardscollective, public reflection at the organisational level. In this session we will describe our approachto institution-wide collaborative writing retreats within the context of LITE activities (Hallett et al.,manuscript submitted). We will present some initial qualitative and quantitative data that speaks to themotivations and development of participants.
