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Synergistic Pedagogies in Virtual Spaces: Preparing Social Justice Educational Researchers Through SoTL

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How can faculty learn to build virtual educational spaces focused on social justice and equity? What might the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), as a knowledge base, hold for building critical pedagogical approaches to virtual education? SoTL is ripe for reexamination as applied to online educational research methods courses focused on the imperative for designing socially just and equitable learning spaces. In this chapter, we present the teaching of empathy, critical questioning, and ambiguity as important qualitative research stances and practices that can engage with the vulnerabilities faced by people while also interrogating power structures that give rise to inequities. We describe and explain the use of case studies within virtual spaces and focuse on the social justice pedagogies related to these courses, the role SoTL played in shaping the course, and share specific activities for teaching online qualitative research methods courses using SoTL principles that encouraged reflexivity, empathy, and critical questioning.

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  1. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Raji Swaminathan

  2. Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA

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Swaminathan, R., Mulvihill, T. (2022). Synergistic Pedagogies in Virtual Spaces: Preparing Social Justice Educational Researchers Through SoTL. In: Parson, L., Ozaki, C.C. (eds) Teaching and Learning for Social Justice and Equity in Higher Education . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88608-0_4

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