Using social network analysis to develop relational expertise for an instructional change initiative
Date of this Version
5-16-2019
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Background
Change leaders (faculty, administrators, and/or external stakeholders) need to develop relational expertise, recognizing the perspectives of others, to enable emergent, systemic change. We describe how change leaders of a grant-funded instructional change initiative developed relational expertise by analyzing faculty relationships and social subgroups to identify who was involved in discussions about teaching and learning and what specific topics were discussed.
Results
Faculty discussions focused on daily classroom needs. Faculty who were in different departments or schools were mostly disconnected from each other, and faculty within these units often had subdivisions among them.
Conclusions
Faculty lacked opportunities to discuss education, specifically, systems-level perspectives. The change leaders created organizational structures to catalyze communities, including an action research fellowship program, to support faculty in education discussions.
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Recommended Citation
Quardokus Fisher, Kathleen; Sitomer, Ann; Bouwma-Gearheart, Jana; and Koretsky, Milo, "Using social network analysis to develop relational expertise for an instructional change initiative" (2019). Department of Earth and Environment. 51.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/earth_environment_fac/51
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Comments
Originally published in the International Journal of STEM Education.