Fielding-wide Research & Scholarship

The Scholar-Practitioner and Higher Education
School of Human & Organization Development: Charles McClintock, PhD, Judy Stevens-Long, PhD, Steven Schapiro, PhD
School of Psychology: Kjell Rudestam, PhD & Judith Schoenholtz-Read, EdD
Provost Office: Anna DiStefano, EdD & Daniel Sewell, PhD

Summary: This work includes several different projects by faculty across schools; and, is aimed at better understanding scholar-practitioners and their role in higher education, especially in distributed education environments. The research has examined areas including the definition of the scholar-practitioner, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components of the scholar-practitioner life, educational delivery environments, and other topics.

Two exciting results of the Fielding-wide expertise in these areas have included the Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning and the Handbook of Online Learning: Innovations in Higher Education and Corporate Training listed below.

Other specific projects include:

• Passionate Scholars: Reforming Doctoral Education - Charles McClintock & Judy Stevens-Long
• Scholarship and the Scholar-Practitioner in Distributed Environments - Dan Sewell & Anna DiStefano
• Scholar-Practitioners, Andragogy, and Pedagogy - Steve Schapiro

Publications/presentations:
Stevens-Long, J. (In Press). The design and delivery of an interactive, on-line graduate education. In K. Rudestam & J. Shoenfield (Eds.), Technology and The Graduate Education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

DiStefano, A., Rudestam, K.E., & Silverman, R.J. (2004). Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

McClintock, C. (2004). The scholar-practitioner. In A. DiStefano, K. Rudestam, & R. Silverman (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Schapiro, S. (2003). From andragogy to collaborative critical pedagogy. Journal of Transformative Education, 1(2).

McClintock, C. (2003). The evaluator as scholar practitioner change agent. The American Journal of Evaluation, 24 (1), 91-96.

Rudestam, K.E., & Schoenholtz-Read, J. (Eds.) (2002). Handbook of Online Learning: Innovations in higher education and corporate training. Newbury Park: Sage.

McClintock, C. and Stevens-Long, J. (2002). Assessing Ineffable Learning Outcomes in Graduate Education. American Association of Higher Education Assessment Conference, Boston, MA.

Sewell, D.R. & DiStefano, A. (2002). Scholarship in the 21st Century: The growth of distance-free, student-centered, adult learning institutions and the changing context of scholarship in higher education. Association for Institutional Research, Toronto, Canada.

McClintock, C. (2001). Spanning knowledge and organizational boundaries: Collaborations for mind and management in higher education. Organization: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Organization, Theory and Society, 8 (2), 351-359.

Funding: Support from Fielding Graduate University
Contact: Dan Sewell - dsewell@fielding.edu