The Ceremony of a SoTL Welcome: The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as a Case Study
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26209/td2024vol17iss11799Keywords:
academic hospitality, ceremony, invitation, relationships, scholarship, SoTL, transdisciplinarity, welcome practicesAbstract
Two scholars explore the forms of welcome and moments of invitation experienced both as scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) scholars and as longtime members of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Their experiences of welcome into SoTL work represent invitations for mutual inquiry, sustained encouragement, and finding continuity in fostering the same for others, through ISSOTL conferences and through published work. The goal in this article is to present our insights into the ceremony of welcome in ISSOTL as a case study for other transdisciplinary intellectual societies and spaces, in order that they may reflect intentionally on the ways in which they do, and do not yet, fully welcome scholars into their academic community.