The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as a Subversive Activity

Autor/inn/en	Boose, David L.; Hutchings, Pat
Titel	The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as a Subversive Activity
Quelle	In: Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 4 (2016) 1, (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2167-4779
Schlagwörter	Scholarship; Instruction; Learning; Higher Education; Communities of Practice; Reflective Teaching; College Faculty; Educational Attitudes; Educational Practices; Educational Change; Resistance to Change; Teaching (Occupation); Educational Objectives; Washington + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Scholarships; Stipendium; Teaching process; Unterrichtsprozess; Lernen; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Community; Fakultät; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsreform; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel
Abstract	One of the most serious challenges facing higher education today is the erosion of academic culture--a declining sense that faculty form a community whose members reflect, deliberate, and make decisions together in the name of a shared educational vision. Our experience with Gonzaga University's Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Initiative suggests that SoTL can be a powerful counter force to this erosion. What became increasingly evident as the initiative unfolded was that its most important result was the creation of a kind of alternative academic community that stands in opposition to many of the dis-integrative, disempowering forces at work in higher education. The scholarly examination of practice, done in a collaborative context, changed participants' perceptions of learning, of themselves as teachers, and of the larger endeavor of which they are a part. Thus, we came to see the SoTL initiative as a subversive activity in the sense used by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner in their 1969 book, "Teaching as a Subversive Activity": one that invites critical questions about education's purposes, practices, and underlying assumptions, and in so doing reanimates core values. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01