What is The Scholarship of Teaching?
Boyer and the Scholarship of Teaching
Boyer, E. (1990) Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Princeton University Press, distinguished between four types of scholarship
- Scholarship of Discovery
- Scholarship of Integration
- Scholarship of Application (Engagement)
- Scholarship of Teaching
Discovery = "traditional" research.
Integration = research on the boundaries of various converging fields, placing research in its appropriate interdisciplinary context, and interpreting research into "the larger intellectual patterns."
Application = "service", and relates acquired knowledge to the larger community.
Teaching = teaching.
Scholarly activity needs to be:
- Public
- Susceptible to critical review and evaluation
- Accessible for exchange and use by other members of one’s community
The scholarship of teaching
- Includes active enquiry by teachers into their own practice…
- ...that is documented i.e. subject to public review, e.g. in a teaching portfolio
A teaching portfolio is a collection of documents and artifacts, which document the author’s (best) practice in teaching and shows their mastery of the scholarship of teaching.
Further reading:
For a brief review of Boyer's seminal work see
http://www.uu.edu/centers/faculty/bookreviews/review.cfm?ID=9
Highly Recommended Reading
- Kreber, C (2002)b Teaching Excellence, Teaching Expertise, and the Scholarship of Teaching. Innovative Higher Education 27(1): 5-23.[1]
- Kreber C. & Cranton P. A. 2000 Exploring the Scholarship of Teaching The Journal of Higher Education 71, 4: 476-495
- Trigwell K. 2001 Judging University Teaching International Journal for Academic Development 6, 1 65-73
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