Developing scholarship of teaching and learning through a community of enquiry
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Date
2017
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UWC
Abstract
A growing interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in higher education
requires the seeking of opportunities for its development within and across disciplines and
institutions. However, rewards for individual competitiveness in research publications,
including the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), tend to discourage
collaboration, which could be highly conducive to the development of SoTL. This paper
proposes the value of working together in a collaborative community of enquiry (CoE) in
order to take forward SoTL in higher education. We draw on Cassidy et al.’s (2008) and
Christie et al.’s (2007) model of seven elements of a CoE to explore our own experience of
forming a CoE emanating from an inter-institutional professional course on teaching and
learning, which assisted us to collaboratively contribute to SoTL. The above model was
found to be useful, but could be enhanced through an expanded perspective, incorporating the
affective turn.
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Keywords
Academic development course, Community of enquiry, Collaborative writing, Professional development, Scholarship of teaching and learning, Recent publications
Citation
Bozalek, V. et al. (2017). Developing scholarship of teaching and learning through a community of enquiry. CriSTaL, 5(2): 1 - 15