Scholarship in action. Issue 2 (4th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Baume, David
• Is Part Of: Innovations in education & teaching international. Volume 54:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 111
• Page End: 116
• Publication Date: 2017-03-04
• Subjects: Higher education -- scholarship -- academic development -- educational development -- SAULT -- Lesotho -- London South Bank University -- professional EdD -- SEDA -- UKPSF; Programmed instruction -- Periodicals; Educational technology -- Periodicals; Instructional systems -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 371.33
• DOI: 10.1080/14703297.2016.1257950
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-3297

Abstract

Abstract: Baume and Popovic describe three complementary and connected approaches to being scholarly in higher education – reflecting critically on practice, using the literature and contributing to the literature. Subsequent work reported here applies and tests the model in three settings – a meeting of the Southern Africa Universities Learning and Teaching Forum (SAULT); a seminar for senior staff in support of an institutional wide curriculum revision project at the National University of Lesotho; and a Professional Doctorate (EdD) seminar at London South Bank University. Reflecting critically on these experiences, the article explores some relationships between stages of the model, and thereby extends the model a little. More broadly the article suggests how an explicitly scholarly practice can permeate our work in universities. The article also tries to show a reflective and scholarly approach in action, and perhaps to demystify and even de-problematise a little the concept of scholarship.