UMass Law UMass Law: Dunlap Authors Chapter in Faculty Learning Community Book

Professor Justine Dunlap authors a chapter on her experience creating a contemplative pedagogy faculty learning community at UMass Dartmouth.

UMass Law Professor Justine Dunlap has a chapter in the recently released book Expanding the Vision of Faculty Learning Communities in Higher Education.

In her chapter “Reflections in Real Time: The Work of Creating a Faculty Learning Community in Contemplative Pedagogy and Practice,” Professor Dunlap relays her experience of establishing a Faculty Learning Community on the UMass Dartmouth campus. In Spring 2022, Professor Dunlap served as the faculty fellow for the Office of Faculty Development at UMass Dartmouth. The end goal of Professor Dunlap’s fellowship was to create a contemplative pedagogy faculty learning community. This chapter is a contemporaneous detailing 0f her approach to getting there and is filled with the highs and lows of forging a new community. Building on this experience in contemplative practices and pedagogy, Professor Dunlap is now working on a course, “The Mindful Lawyer,” which she is creating as an Open Educational Resource.

Expanding the Vision of Faculty Learning Communities in Higher Education is a collection of writings from professors who have created space for Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs) in their institutions. The book was edited by Kristin Rainville, Sacred Heart University, David Title, Sacred Heart University, and Cynthia Desrochers, California State University, Northridge and contains chapters from faculty of all diverse academic disciplines.