Call for Papers
Special Issue of the International Journal of Organizational Analysis
Shaping Our Unscripted Future with Service-Learning:
When Technology, Globalism, and Community Engagement Collide
Technological advances are increasing global communications and
fuelling paradigm shifts. They are influencing all aspects of
organizational life. As environments change, many organizational
members are left with only what is familiar to them – data reflecting
the scripts of the past. However, these familiar understandings
typically provide limited guidance on how to proceed into the future.
To move forward most productively, organizational members need
to acknowledge and embrace the increasingly unscripted future – a
shared, unpredictable, and dynamic future comprised of both known
and unknown consequences of global, technological, and economic
change. With this step, the important task of shaping the future can be addressed.
This, our unscripted future, is all-encompassing. The consequences for higher education will
affect students, faculty members, and administrators alike. Paradigmatic shifts are already in
motion. As accrediting bodies, international competitors, and new technologies prescribe
factors for success, major curricula changes are occurring across all degree structures.
One of the most dramatic changes in educational practice that has been accelerated, if not
caused, by the shifts in technological innovation and globalism can be seen in the
international expansion of service-learning. Service-learning is an educational initiative that
assists in the development of human intellectual capital via real-world, course-based student
community engagement experiences. Service-learning programs offer students the
opportunity to foster sensemaking in unpredictable environments.
The goal of this special issue is to provide IJOA readers, as well as service-learning authors
and practitioners, with an overview of the application and outcomes of service-learning as a
teaching tool in today's rapidly changing environment. This special issue will explore the
strengths and challenges of service-learning practice in the context of our unscripted future –
with a specific focus on the interrelationships between technological advances, global access
and interest, and community engagement. Topics will include not only how service-learning
is being applied as a tool to explore and understand complex environments but also why
service-learning is being used in terms of leveraging educational opportunities into desired
outcomes for students, universities, and community members. Our goal is to expand the
current literature in directions that reflect today's global, diverse, interconnected, and
uncertain organizational environments.
We encourage submissions from:
• Organizational researchers and practitioners from across the disciplines who are
actively engaged in cutting edge service-learning applications with a focus on new
technological and/or international applications – encompassing both stand-alone
programs and those involving partners from different global locations.
• Practitioners who work in non-traditional organizational disciplines and from those
who are using advanced technological applications to heighten the quality of service learning
programs.
Articles should be 4,000 - 6,000 words in length with an appropriate title. Manuscripts
should be set out using 12-point Times New Roman font, double-line spacing throughout,
with single-spaces between sentences, and 1 inch (25mm) margins. A brief autobiographical
note should be supplied including full name, affiliation, e-mail address and full international
contact details. For manuscript submission guidelines, see:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/ijoa/notes.jsp
The submission deadline is September 26, 2008. Authors are strongly encouraged to contact
either of the two guest editors, Amy Kenworthy-U'Ren (akenwort@bond.edu.au) or Laurie
DiPadova-Stocks (ldipadovastocks@park.edu), to discuss possible submissions. Early
submissions are encouraged.
Amy Kenworthy-U'Ren Laurie DiPadova-Stocks
Bond University, Australia Park University, USA
Special Issue Guest Editor Special Issue Guest Editor
Laurie N. DiPadova-Stocks, Ph.D.
Dean and Professor of Public Administration
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