Open AccessIs SoTL a Signature Pedagogy of Educational Development?
Author(s) -
Felten Peter,
Chick Nancy
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/tia2.20077
Subject(s) - scholarship of teaching and learning , scholarship , signature (topology) , focus (optics) , field (mathematics) , pedagogy , sociology , mathematics education , engineering ethics , teaching method , psychology , political science , engineering , teaching and learning center , mathematics , geometry , physics , optics , pure mathematics , law
In this article, we focus on questions that come into view when we look at educational development through the lenses of signature pedagogies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). We offer this as a thought experiment in which we consider if SoTL is a signature pedagogy of educational development, simultaneously enacting and revealing the practices, values, and assumptions that underpin the diverse work of our field. By envisioning SoTL in this way, we may more clearly see the purposes and practices that unite—and that ought to guide—educational developers and educational development.