Toward a Scholarship of Practice

EDITOR’S NOTES 5
John M. Braxton

Part I. The Development of Knowledge Bases for Practice

1. Contributions to Types of Professional Knowledge by Higher Education Journals 9
Jenna W. Kramer, John M. Braxton

2. The Scholarship of Practice in Applied Disciplines 21
Dawn Lyken-Segosebe

Part II. The Uses of Research Findings to Guide Practice

3. Models for Applying Scholarship to Practice 35
Maureen E. Wilson, Amy S. Hirschy

4. The Use of Student Engagement Findings as a Case of Evidence-Based Practice 47
Jillian Kinzie

5. Constructing a Prototype: Realizing a Scholarship of Practice in General Education 57
Cynthia A. Wells

Part III. Graduate Preparation and the Scholarship of Practice as Stewardship

6. The Scholars We Need: Preparing Dynamic Transdisciplinary Professionals by Leveraging the Scholarship of Practice 71
Melissa McDaniels, Erik Skogsberg

7. Student Affairs and the Scholarship of Practice 85
Amy S. Hirschy, Maureen E. Wilson

8. The Scholarship of Practice and Stewardship of Higher Education 95
John M. Braxton, Todd C. Ream

INDEX 103