Open AccessKnowledge for teaching, knowledge about teaching: exploring the links between education research, scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) and scholarly teaching
Author(s) -
Jennifer M. Case
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0259-479X
DOI - 10.17159/i61a03
Subject(s) - scholarship of teaching and learning , deliberation , scholarship , tacit knowledge , teaching and learning center , mathematics education , pedagogy , sociology , teaching method , psychology , computer science , knowledge management , political science , politics , law
The relationship between education research and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) is still debated, while a distinction has been made between scholarly teaching and SOTL. This study compares and contrasts two programmes of work that took place in a particular 2nd year engineering course, both led by the author. The first programme was an educational research project investigating student learning in the course. The second programme was a period of teaching, leading to some SOTL output. Analysis of the knowledge drawn on in teaching, confirms that good university teaching is not a direct application of research findings but rather draws on a broad and largely tacit practical base of knowledge. The article also offers a deliberation on whether it is productive to maintain the distinction between education research and SOTL.