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What are the components of the SPL Model, and what are your perceptions of how the model will benefit you as a practitioner doctorate? How does Doctoral Demeanor relate to the SPL Model?
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College of Doctoral Studies
Scholar, Practitioner, Leader (SPL)
Model
Topics
After viewing this presentation, you should be able to:
• Describe the SPL Model
• Summarize the origins of the SPL Model
• Explain how the SPL Model is different
• Explain how the SPL Model works
CDS Mission
The mission of the College of Doctoral
Studies is to support the development of
leaders and aspiring leaders within our
Scholar-Practitioner-Leader™ model. By
cultivating learners’ capacity in
organizational research and practice, we
seek to empower the creative action that
influences policy and decision-making,
fostering transformation across diverse
environments.
What is the Scholar, Practitioner, Leader Model?
• Personifies the College of Doctoral
Studies’ Mission
Scholarship
• Outgrowth of reflection and
development of our programs
• Dynamic and evolving
Practice
Leadership
SPL
Model
How is the SPL Model Different?
Traditional program with traditional curriculum:
• Focus primarily on cognitive learning (knowledge)
• Ignore learners’ experiences, values, and individuals’ core identity
• High priority is placed on scholarship, not application
How Does the SPL Model Differentiate CDS and You?
CDS Curriculum:
• High standard of rigor
• Fosters a culture of inquiry
• Focuses on contributions from both the academic and practitioner
communities
• Conscious of both cognitive and affective domains of learning (knowledge and
internalization)
• Includes Boyer’s Model of Scholarship with equal attention to the scholarship
of discovery, integration, application and teaching/learning
What Does SPL Look Like?
CDS Coursework:
• Centers on students’ rich experience
• Deep understanding of concepts, theories, and practice
• Enriched with metacognitive introspection
o How does the new knowledge integrate with your own experiences and beliefs?
o Leads to scholarly discourse
Where Did SPL Originate?
Robert Kegan (2001)
• Cannot know something in an exclusively cognitive or exclusively affective way
o Always using both
Boyer (1990)
• The scholarship of discovery that includes original research that advances
knowledge
• The scholarship of integration that involves synthesis of information across
disciplines, across topics within a discipline, or across time
• The scholarship of application (also later called the scholarship of engagement)
• The scholarship of teaching and learning that the systematic study of teaching
and learning processes
Why Scholar, Practitioner, Leader?
• CDS Graduates need the competence to know and to act in their field
• Graduates will be agents of change
• Problem:
o Scholars – often think about problems without a solution in mind
o Practitioners – depend on results to be effective day-to-day
• Traditional thinking says that there is a tension between scholars and
practitioners
• CDS graduates differentiate themselves by integrating scholarship, practice and
leadership
Why Scholar, Practitioner, Leader?
Leadership is the key third element
• Leadership provides a balance between the competing interests of the scholar
and practitioner
• Leadership is the competence, knowledge, and foresight to make decisions
that honor both theory and experience
• Leadership informs and is informed by knowledge and experience, i.e.:
scholarship and practice
How Does SPL Work?
In the classroom:
• Participation in dialogue
• Researching peer-reviewed sources
• Integrating application-based knowledge
• Weekly self-reflection
For the student:
• Translation of classroom learning (scholarship) into effective leadership
behaviors (practice)
How Does SPL Work?
• Complementary integration of scholarship, practice, and leadership into
course content as well as personal and professional lives
• In the interchange between the academic and practical worlds leaders
emerge ready to face challenges of today and tomorrow