Parker, Janet
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Abstract
The panel - pro and anti disciplinary SoTL - that this paper contributed to - sought to debate whether disciplines inhibit or build up SoTL. Torgny Roxa argued persuasively, as ever! that disciplines exert a structural and epistemological control such that SoTL cannot find a place to operate or be as effective as it should be.
This paper seeks to take an opposite position. This is not to deny several of the ‘anti’ points: including that disciplinary hierarchies and research agendas can act in the inhibiting way he described. Indeed, it is precisely because I agree with the potentially vitiating and stultifying nature of the discipline as a tightly bounded research community that I feel so strongly that disciplinary SoTL is vital and vitalising. For the essence of SoTL - the exploration by the teacher of some problem that has puzzled her and the ownership and publication of that exploration – I argue here can, rather, make disciplinary development swift and teaching-centred. It is precisely because of the separating off of research structures - research leave, research grants, research CVs all accounted for differently from teaching - that disciplinary SoTL has a space to develop and to affect and effect. And, whereas the disciplinary agenda has traditionally followed that of the research community, with at best ‘research-informed teaching’, SoTL gives teachers in their own right, as teacher-scholars, an arena and a base from which to transform their discipline.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2011 University of West London |
| ISBN: | 0-9569534-0-9, 978-0-9569534-0-7 |
| Extra Information: | The London Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
8th International Conference : Proceedings 2010 Disciplines, Pedagogies and Cultures for SoTL University of West London Editors: Joëlle Fanghanel, Dan Bernstein, Mary Huber, Denis Berthiaume, Digby Warren, Torgny Roxa and Nicole Rege Colet The London SoTL International Conference was held on 13th and 14th May 2010 |
| Keywords: | scholarship of teaching and learning;disciplinarity |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Institute of Educational Technology |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET) |
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| Item ID: | 29591 |
| Depositing User: | Janet Parker |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2011 08:25 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2012 16:59 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/29591 |
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