Open AccessThe Scholarship of Teaching: A Canadian Perspective with Examples
Author(s) -
Joe Cunsolo,
Mei-Fei Elrick,
Alex Middleton,
Dale Roy
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
canadian journal of higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2293-6602
pISSN - 0316-1218
DOI - 10.47678/cjhe.v26i1.183231
Subject(s) - scholarship , sociology , value (mathematics) , perspective (graphical) , scholarship of teaching and learning , work (physics) , engineering ethics , mathematics education , pedagogy , political science , teaching method , teaching and learning center , psychology , computer science , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , machine learning
Scholarship is the heart of academic work. Recognizing this the Carnegie report (Boyer, 1990) urges universities to extend the definition of scholarship to include application, teaching, and integration, as well as discovery, thereby making it possible to value all academic work. Although this inclusive view of scholarship holds promise, questions remain concerning the scholarship of teaching and how such scholarship differs from the activities which presently comprise teaching. How would scholarship be identified with teaching, enhance practices, and foster the development of teaching? These questions are addressed, examples given of teaching scholarship, and of institutional policies which support it. The enhancement of teaching, as it meets scholarship's criteria, is discussed.