Open AccessToward a New Creative Scholarship of Educational Development: The Teaching and Learning Project and an Opening to Discourse
Author(s) -
Springborg Martin,
Horii Cassandra V.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/tia2.20048
Subject(s) - scholarship , transformative learning , sociology , scholarship of teaching and learning , pedagogy , interpretation (philosophy) , photography , field (mathematics) , the arts , discipline , professional development , visual arts , engineering ethics , mathematics education , teaching method , teaching and learning center , psychology , social science , computer science , art , engineering , political science , mathematics , pure mathematics , law , programming language
This invited essay of To Improve the Academy 's special feature on Creative Scholarship presents one example of creative scholarship in educational development as a forward to other forms and approaches in the special feature. This example, the Teaching and Learning Project, merges documentary and art photography traditions with faculty consultation. Following a review of the literatures of visual interpretation and instructional consultation, along with their intersection, the essay presents the Teaching and Learning Project in three ways: (a) as images, analyzed using the disciplinary grounding of the visual arts; (b) as a consultation methodology and an educational development practice; and (c) as a research project using a social science‐based approach (grounded theory) exploring the experience of the subjects photographed. Finally, as a segue to the rest of the TIA special feature, this invited essay addresses the transformative nature of creative scholarship and its implications for the field of educational development.