%0 Journal Article
%T Retreating academics: creating spaces for the scholarship of teaching and learning
%A Sue Southwood
%J -
%D 2017
%X Recognising the struggles many academics experience around academic writing, this paper explores particular spaces created to support academic engagement in the scholarship of teaching and learning: the space of writing retreats. The metaphor of ¡®tapestry¡¯ is used to capture the development of a complex conceptual image of the writing retreats. A metatheoretical framework - a matrix built from the ¡®warp¡¯ and ¡®weft¡¯ of spatiality and sociality - supports the development of a pedagogical picture of presence. Analysis of qualitative data, generated through questionnaires and informal group discussions, led to the identification of dimensional ¡®threads¡¯, considered as enabling conditions, for scholarly engagement. Such dimensions speak to spaces not only within (personal) and between people (interpersonal), but also spaces beyond (extrapersonal).
%K presence
%K retreats
%K scholarship
%K sociality
%K spatiality
%K writing
%U https://www.ajol.info/index.php/cristal/article/view/164431