Open Access6: Toward a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Educational Development
Author(s) -
Felten Peter,
Kalish Alan,
Pingree Allison,
Plank Kathryn M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2007.tb00476.x
Subject(s) - scholarship of teaching and learning , scholarship , field (mathematics) , order (exchange) , professional development , sociology , engineering ethics , pedagogy , computer science , teaching and learning center , teaching method , political science , engineering , business , mathematics , finance , pure mathematics , law
Educational development traditionally has been a practice‐based field. We propose that as a profession we adopt the methods of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), so often shared with our clients, in order to look through a scholarly lens at the outcomes of our own practice. Using SoTL approaches in our work would deepen the research literature in our field and improve the effectiveness of decisions we make about where to spend limited time and resources. In this chapter, we explore what it might mean for individual developers, and for our professional community, to apply SoTL methods to our practice.