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Shaping Our Unscripted Future with Service-Learning: When Technology, Globalism, and Community Engagement Collide

  • 1.  Shaping Our Unscripted Future with Service-Learning: When Technology, Globalism, and Community Engagement Collide

    Posted 03-13-2008 00:10

    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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