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Perspectives on the scholarship of teaching
Author(s) -
E Fincher RuthMarie,
Work Janis A
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02404.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , citation , library science , medicine , computer science , law , political science
Educators were catapulted forward in their thinking about scholarship in 1990 when Boyer proposed a broader definition. Research, the discovery of new knowledge, is the traditionally recognised form of scholarship. Boyer conceptualised research as representing only a single form and identified the areas of application, integration and teaching also as scholarship. Any type of scholarship advances or transforms knowledge in a discipline through the application of the scholar’s intellect in an informed, disciplined and creative manner. Scholarship is demonstrated by a peer-reviewed, publicly disseminated product. Fifteen years on, we propose that teaching itself is not scholarship, but teaching can include the scholarship of application, integration and research.