Faculty Development
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
In 1990, Ernest Boyer, then President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, wrote a special report that focused on faculty work, specifically the priority assigned to teaching within the academy.
In Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, Boyer asked, "Is it possible to define the work of faculty in ways that reflect more realistically the full range of academic and civic mandates?" He went on to say that the tired debate about teaching versus research should be laid to rest, and in its place we should give the honorable term of 'scholarship' a far broader meaning to encompass the full scope of academic work.
Boyer recast educators' understanding of scholarship to include four distinct yet overlapping notions of scholarship: discovery; integration; application; and teaching. The conception of teaching as scholarly work resonated with faculty in universities and community colleges, and fuelled early work on faculty teaching portfolios.
In 1998, The Carnegie Foundation founded its Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) based on both Scholarship Reconsidered and the 1997 follow-up study, Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate.
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
This international, peer-reviewed eJournal was launched in January 2007. Published twice a year by the Center for Excellence in Teaching at Georgia Southern University, the journal includes articles, essays, and discussions about the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and its applications in higher education.
This e-journal, founded and sponsored by Indiana University at South Bend, provides a publication outlet for SOTL research, as well as an on-line forum.
Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning (CASTL)This website includes programs for K-12 and Higher Education, an eLibrary of articles and essays available for download, information on new SOTL publications, updates on SOTL clusters from across the country, and multimedia examples of teaching and learning.
Articles and Books
Toward a Pedagogy of Substance
This article presents the case for the substance of teaching and learning: "What we see in great teaching ... (is) someone who really understands the subject deeply and understands how exquisitely complex it is to make knowledge accessible to the knowing processes of those who do not yet understand."
Shulman, L. S. 1989. "Toward a Pedagogy of Substance." AAHE Bulletin. 41(10): 8-13.
This article argues that teaching is undervalued because "the way we treat teaching removes it from the community of scholars" (i.e. the disciplines and inter-disciplines faculty pursue). To connect teaching to this community requires documentation and evaluation by peers.
Shulman, L. S. 1993. "Teaching as Community Property: Putting an End to Pedagogical Solitude." Change. (Nov/Dec).
This book argues for a broader conception of scholarship, encompassing not only basic research (the "scholarship of discovery"), but also the scholarship of teaching.
Boyer, E. L. 1990. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. Princeton, N.J.: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
This book introduces the idea of reflective conversation which "spirals through stages of appreciation, action, reappreciation" as critical to the development of professional knowledge-in-action.
Schon, D. 1983. The Reflective Practicioner. New York: Basic Books.
This article describes a forum for faculty, student affairs personnel, classified staff, administrators, and students that meets informally and regularly to study issues related to teaching and learning. Carmen Werder, one of the authors, is a 2005-06 Carnegie Scholar.
Werder, C., P. J. Redmond, J. Purdue, and K. Patrick. 2003. "Creating a Reflective Space: The Teaching and Learning Academy at Western Washington University." Washington Center News. Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education. Fall: 38-40.
Selected Bibliographies
Brief SOTL Bibliography
Selected SOTL titles from classics to current publications.Washington Center. 2005.
This bibliography includes examples of SOTL projects and resources for faculty who want to begin SOTL work.
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