Open AccessSoTL and the Humanities
Author(s) -
Deandra Little,
Emily Donnelli–Sallee,
Renee Michael
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
teaching and learning inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2167-4787
pISSN - 2167-4779
DOI - 10.20343/teachlearninqu.9.2.14
Subject(s) - scholarship , scholarship of teaching and learning , discipline , portfolio , sociology , work (physics) , pedagogy , process (computing) , humanities , library science , political science , teaching method , teaching and learning center , engineering , social science , computer science , art , mechanical engineering , financial economics , law , economics , operating system
In this article, we share themes and tensions experienced by humanities faculty undertaking a scholarship of teaching & learning (SoTL) project as part of a multi-campus, grant-funded initiative. Faculty participants in the project iteratively transformed a course to improve one or more aspects of their students’ learning over a three-year period and documented the process and results in a course portfolio. To support their individual and collaborative work, each of the four campuses had a local leader, and participants met regularly with campus teams, convening with the full group annually for cross-campus knowledge exchange and peer review. At the project conclusion campus leaders gathered participant reflections and discovered a pattern of tensions that included: disciplinary ways of knowing, ways to represent knowing, and ways of writing and sharing. These tensions are similar to those identified elsewhere and can be potential impediments to this work for some in the humanities. Explicitly addressing those potential tensions while helping faculty see how their own disciplinary approaches can help them investigate their course practices is a useful first step toward more contributions from humanities scholars.