Fieldwork as Commitment

Stevens, Stan

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“…Their intention was to further the foundational goal of SoTL-improving teaching and learning-and to help others understand the value of this work. As Stevens (2001) noted, "achieving legitimacy depends not only on your goals but also on how you inspire trust and enthusiasm" (p. 70). Participants in this study heartily embraced this maxim.…”

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“…Åkerlind's (2008a) empirical study about the experience of being a disciplinary researcher noted that while researchers recognize the structural requirement to undertake research, their motivation is based more on the personal satisfaction they gain through doing research. Similarly, according to Stevens (2001), many researchers undertake research because it emerges from their own interests or concerns. Åkerlind (2008a) further claimed that researchers tend to focus on the impact of their research, not only for the field itself, but for "their standing within it" (p. 26), publishing in part to gain a reputation amongst their disciplinary peers.…”

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How Experienced SoTL Researchers Develop the Credibility of Their Work

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Teaching and learning research in higher education, often referred to as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), is still relatively novel in many academic contexts compared to the mainstay of disciplinary research. One indication of this is the challenges those who engage in SoTL report in terms of how this work is valued or considered credible amongst disciplinary colleagues and in the face of institutional policies and practices. This paper moves beyond the literature that describes these specific challenges to investigate how 23 experienced SoTL researchers from five different countries understood the notion of credibility in relationship to their SoTL research and how they went about developing credibility for their work. Semistructured interviews were facilitated and analyzed using inductive analysis. Findings indicate that notions of credibility encompassed putting SoTL research into action and building capacity and community around research findings, as well as gaining external validation through traditional indicators such as publishing. SoTL researchers reported a variety of strategies and approaches they were using, both formal and informal, to develop credibility for their work. The direct focus of this paper on credibility of SoTL work as perceived by experienced SoTL researchers, and how they go about developing credibility, is a distinct contribution to the discussions about the valuing of SoTL work.

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How Experienced SoTL Researchers Develop the Credibility of Their Work

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“…Together with local Sherpa research associates, 25 of whom worked on the project, I carried out more than 60 months of fieldwork on nearly annual field expeditions between 1982 and 2002. Research on tourism development and environmental issues was part of our larger, long‐term longitudinal study of Khumbu and Pharak cultural ecology, political ecology, and environmental history (Stevens 1983 1993a 1993b 1997b 2001 2002 forthcoming). Long‐term research facilitated the establishment of close working relationships with many individuals in numerous settlements and made possible extended, repeat interviews of particularly knowledgeable individuals about both current conditions and oral histories of local and regional economic and environmental change.…”

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“…Interviews were conducted with multiple residents of each settlement in order to corroborate key testimony. I carried out interviews both independently in Nepali and English and with Sherpa research associates, whose interpretive assistance, knowledge, and local contacts added immeasurably to the work (see also Stevens 1993a 2001; Vansina 1985 on project methodology). Intensive interview‐based research of this kind, cross‐checked and correlated with available data from historical accounts, records, and photographs, can offer powerful, highly detailed, and site‐specific insights into local and regional environmental and landscape history.…”

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Tourism and deforestation in the Mt Everest region of Nepal

Stevens

2003

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Over the past 50 years the Sherpa‐inhabited Mt Everest region of Nepal has become a premier international mountaineering and trekking destination. Tourism development has brought prosperity to many Sherpas. It has also, however, had adverse impacts on regional forests and alpine vegetation because of the use of firewood by camping groups and inns and the felling of trees to construct inns and other tourist facilities. Concern that tourism was causing widespread deforestation helped catalyse the 1976 establishment of an inhabited protected area, Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) National Park, in the Khumbu region and spurred the implementation of a series of forest conservation and alternative energy development measures both within the national park and in a recently declared buffer zone in the adjacent Pharak region. This paper examines the changing pressures that tourism has placed on regional forests and alpine vegetation over the past half century and their role in regional vegetation change. This analysis is based primarily on detailed accounts of past and present forest use and change obtained during fieldwork conducted in all Khumbu and Pharak villages, along with corroborating evidence from early foreign visitors’ accounts and photographs. Contrary to some early reports it now appears there has actually been little deforestation since 1950. The continuing use of firewood by inns, however, has contributed to the thinning of forests in some parts of the national park and to the depletion of shrub juniper in the most heavily visited alpine regions. There has been a greater impact on forests just outside the national park, which have been heavily thinned over an extensive area in order to provide timber to build inns within the national park.

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“…The Mekong Delta is a fertile rice producing region, where water management is key for maintaining production. It covers 10 provinces including Phnom Penh and is home to about 6 million people [28].…”

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Water Governance in Cambodia: From Centralized Water Governance to Farmer Water User Community

Sithirith

2017

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Cambodia has abundant water resources in the wet season and a scarcity of water in the dry season. These phenomena undermine the development in this country and pose a threat to long-term development. Hence, the governance of water becomes critically important for the current and future development of Cambodia. Thus, this study is undertaken to understand the current water governance practice, challenges and constraints that prevent Cambodia from managing water effectively, and identify opportunities to improve it. In doing this, the study examines the water governance in Cambodia from a large-scale water management system and three community-based water resource management systems and farmer water user communities (FWUCs) in three provinces around Cambodia. It concludes that the current water governance practice in Cambodia is still too weak and fragmented to address the water security issues affecting the country, and thus, reorganization of the current structure and system of the water governance framework would be required to address long-term water security issues.

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Fieldwork as Commitment

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How Experienced SoTL Researchers Develop the Credibility of Their Work

How Experienced SoTL Researchers Develop the Credibility of Their Work

Tourism and deforestation in the Mt Everest region of Nepal

Water Governance in Cambodia: From Centralized Water Governance to Farmer Water User Community

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