Scholarship of Teaching Research Group at UW Tacoma

We are a four-person interdisciplinary research team -- comprised of education, nursing, and business administration faculty. Our research team is focused on developing our teaching practice while producing relevant scholarship that advances the use of self-study of teaching at the university level.

Our team dates back to January 1999 when we came together because of our passion for teaching and our desire to integrate teaching and scholarship. Our desire to improve upon and better our teaching led us to the research on the self-study of teaching.

In our nearly three years as a research team, we have completed several papers outlining a model for conducting self-study research from an interdisciplinary team perspective. Our scholarly output to date includes two papers, one conference proceedings, one book chapter, four conference presentations, and one campus presentation.

You can read more about this group in the University Week article, "Tacoma Research Project Considers Teaching"

Denise Drevdahl, Nursing
Belinda Louie, Education
Jill Purdy, Business Administration
Richard Stackman, Business Administration

Scholarly Papers and Presentations (as of January 2002)

Drevdahl, D., Stackman, R., Purdy, J., & Louie, B. (in press). "Merging reflective inquiry and self-study as a framework for enhancing the scholarship of teaching." Journal of Nursing Education.

Louie, B., Drevdahl, D., Purdy, J., & Stackman, R. (in press). "Advancing the Scholarship of Teaching through Collaborative Self-Study." Journal of Higher Education.

Louie, B., Stackman, R., Drevdahl, D., & Purdy, J. (in press). "Myths about teaching and the university professor: The power of unexamined beliefs." In J. Loughran & T. Russell (Eds.), Improving teacher education practices through self-study. London, Great Britain: Routledge Falmer.

Louie, B., Drevdahl, D., Purdy, J., & Stackman, R. (2000). "A collaborative self-study on myths of good and bad teaching." In J. Loughran & T. Russell, (Eds.). Exploring myths and legends of teacher education: Proceedings of the third international conference on self-study of teacher education practice (pp. 159-163). Kingston, Ontario: Self-study of Teacher Education Practices Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.

Stackman, R., Drevdahl, D., Purdy, J., & Louie, B. (2001, August). "A framework for reflective self-study’s use in teacher development." Presentation at the Academy of Management meetings at Washington, DC.

Louie, B., Drevdahl, D., Purdy, J., & Stackman, R. (2001, April). "The Mirror Has Multiple Faces: A collaborative study of exploring teaching selves as faculty professional development." Presentation at the American Educational Research Association Annual Convention at Seattle, WA.

Drevdahl, D., Stackman, R., Purdy, J., & Louie, B. (2001, April). "Charting a course to pedagogical inquiry: Reflective self-study." Poster session presented at the annual Western Institute of Nursing Research Conference at Seattle, WA, April 2001.

Louie, B., Drevdahl, D., Purdy, J., & Stackman, R. (2000, November). "Les Mytherables…How four teachers struggle with uncovering the myths of teaching." Presentation at the University of Washington, Tacoma.

Louie, B., Drevdahl, D., Purdy, J., & Stackman, R. (2000, July). "A collaborative self-study on myths of good and bad teaching." Presentation at the third international conference on self-study of teacher education practice at East Sussex, England.

More Information

For more information on this group and their work together at UW Tacoma, see the article, Tacoma Research Project Considers Teaching (University Week, April 4, 2002)