Title

Faculty community under construction: A Case Study

Authors

Patricia E. Calderwood, Fairfield UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Article Version

Publisher's PDF

Publication Date

2007

Abstract

This case study describes some of the elements of the social construction of community by faculty involved with an innovative residential and academic subgroup at a small private university in the northeast US. Examples from the case study demonstrate that the social construction of faculty community can be accomplished through both routine and marked activities and events; that it is possible to build a resilient sense of community deliberately and overtly, inadvertently, and subtly, and that it is possible to respond to potential vulnerabilities in ways that build a resilient sense of community.

Comments

Publisher: The Department of Education at the University Of South Carolina Aiken

PDF freely available at: http://www.usca.edu/essays/vol212007/calderwood2.pdf

Publication Title

Essays in Education

Repository Citation

Calderwood, Patricia E., "Faculty community under construction: A Case Study" (2007). School of Education and Human Development Faculty Publications. 10.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/education-facultypubs/10

Published Citation

Calderwood, P. E. (2007). Faculty community under construction: A Case Study. Essays in Education, 21, 120-138.

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