Why is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning such a hard sell? Export

@article{citeulike:4251332, abstract = {Advocates have difficulty convincing colleagues Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a worthwhile use of time and resources. This article highlights problems impeding SoTL. First, scholarship of teaching gets used as a synonym for other activities. Second, Boyer’s definition was conceptually confused. Third, SoTL is difficult to operationalize. Fourth, much discourse concerning SoTL is anti-intellectual and located in a narrow neoliberalism. Fifth, there is uncritical over-reliance on peer review as the mechanism for measuring scholarship. Each impediment makes SoTL a hard sell – particularly in research-intensive universities. Taken together, they constitute a formidable problem for SoTL advocates and contain incendiary implications for promotion candidates and committees.}, author = {Boshier, Roger}, citeulike-article-id = {4251332}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360802444321}, doi = {10.1080/07294360802444321}, journal = {Higher Education Research \& Development}, keywords = {research, teaching}, number = {1}, pages = {1--15}, posted-at = {2009-03-31 23:49:41}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Routledge}, title = {Why is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning such a hard sell?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360802444321}, volume = {28}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4251332 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4251332 N2 - Advocates have difficulty convincing colleagues Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a worthwhile use of time and resources. This article highlights problems impeding SoTL. First, scholarship of teaching gets used as a synonym for other activities. Second, Boyer’s definition was conceptually confused. Third, SoTL is difficult to operationalize. Fourth, much discourse concerning SoTL is anti-intellectual and located in a narrow neoliberalism. Fifth, there is uncritical over-reliance on peer review as the mechanism for measuring scholarship. Each impediment makes SoTL a hard sell – particularly in research-intensive universities. Taken together, they constitute a formidable problem for SoTL advocates and contain incendiary implications for promotion candidates and committees. IS - 1 JF - Higher Education Research & Development EP - 15 TI - Why is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning such a hard sell? PB - Routledge VL - 28 SP - 1 KW - research KW - teaching AU - Boshier, Roger PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360802444321 ER -