“Parks and Recreation: One Response to Crisis
or Transition Karla A. Henderson
North Carolina State University
Is This Concern the Story of Chicken Little?
The Falling Sky as a Crisis AND a Transition…
Jackson & Burton (1999) –Our field has always been in a state of crisis.
Rowe (2002)-The difference between a crisis and a mind set of critical reflection may be quite fine.
Dog with Cat
Nature of Crisis/Transition in Higher Education
Intellectual
Institutional
Are WE (Practitioners and Educators) All in the Same Boat?
Kuhn (1970)—Scientific Revolutions
Reaffirming the Status Quo
Dangers of allegiance to traditional paradigm
Common Mission/Collective Identity
What does our field stand for?
What are our common values?
Are we clinging to a traditional paradigm?
An Intellectual Approach…
1. How can change be embraced?
2. What is our field’s collective identity and core values?
3. What do we have to contribute (to students, higher education, knowledge systems, society…)
4. What collaborations must we seek?