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Brett McCollum’s “SoTL Mentoring for the Mind and the Heart” is an autoethnography in which he describes the development of his professional identity as a SoTL scholar and mentor by using a model of professional identity based on work by Paterson and colleagues. He reflects on “unlearning” assumptions about research that he learned as a chemist, as well as learning the “hidden curriculum” he encountered in SoTL and how these unlearning/learning processes continue even now as an experienced SoTL scholar. Finally, he argues that the targets of SoTL mentoring should not just be the scholarly mind, but also the scholarly heart.

Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.36284/celelon.oa6.14

Discussion Questions

  • Which of the three professional identity requirements (PIRs) was most important to you at the beginning of your SoTL journey? Which is most important to you in your current role as a SoTL mentor or mentee? Why?
  • What hidden curriculum have you uncovered in your discipline or in SoTL? How has this hidden curriculum impacted your practice or professional identity?
  • What advice do you wish you had been offered in your SoTL journey for (i) your scholarly mind and (ii) your scholarly heart?
  • How can you use SoTL mentoring to sustain your own career engagement?