Dr. Ginny M. Jones Presents: "Pathways: An Exploration of Scholarship Among Student Affairs Practitioners"
Drawing on a constructivist paradigm, symbolic interactionism, and Boyer’s framework of scholarship, Dr. Jones explored 22 student affairs practitioners’ graduate preparation and career experiences with scholarship.
Many have suggested that the scholarship production and engagement is low among student affairs practitioners. Yet, we know very little about the actual levels of scholarship engagement among such practitioners or what contributes to the perceived scantiness of their scholarship activities. Drawing on a constructivist paradigm, symbolic interactionism, and Boyer’s framework of scholarship, Dr. Jones explored 22 student affairs practitioners’ graduate preparation and career experiences with scholarship. This presentation will discuss her study’s findings and their implications for student affairs practitioners, supervisors, and graduate preparation programs.
Ginny M. Jones is a professor of higher, adult, and lifelong education. Her teaching and research interests include: the scholarship of teaching and learning, scholarship engagement among higher ed/student affairs practitioners, partnership and critical discourse among higher ed/student affairs faculty and administrators, graduate student learning and development, and women and gender in higher education. She previously worked as an administrator in the areas of counseling, residence life, staff development, and adult education. Ginny received her Ph.D. in Counseling and Student Personnel Services at the University of Georgia, her MA in Mental Health Counseling from Asbury Theological Seminary, and her BA in Communications Arts from Georgia Southern University.
