Your Turn: Connecting with the Big Tent

The SoTL literature is replete with references to the “big tent” (Huber & Hutchings, 2005) as a shorthand for SoTL’s openness to, and inclusion of, scholars from diverse disciplines and geographic contexts. As Hewson and Easton (2022) have noted, however, tents can vary tremendously in their appearance and capacity. What do we actually mean when we talk about the “big tent”? What images do we each conjure, and how might they be similar or different?  Moreover, what do those shared or diverging features say about how we each understand and engage with SoTL? 

Use the blue arrow to click through the images provided in the slideshow below, and then record your thoughts in the Your Turn box provided. Navigate to the Export Page to save your thoughts in a document.