Understanding Scholarship of Teaching and Learning : Narrative inquiry into a community of university teachers

ISBN-13: 9783330025943 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 456 str.

Weijia Yang

Opis

This book inquires narratively into the practice of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) and teachers' personal practical knowing process in a self-initiated community of university teachers in China. Following a conception by Boyer (1990) that research should be incorporated into teaching as the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), Huber & Hutchings (2005) theorize SoTL in a four-core-practice framework of a linear process of individual expression for research and publication. However, not much attention has been given to the important dynamics of collaborative learning. Adopting a social theory of learning and Wenger's "communities of practice" (1998, 2002), this book extends the framework by Huber & Hutchings to investigate the integrated form of individual and collaborative SoTL practice. "Personal practical knowledge" by Connelly, Clandinin & He (1997) is considered in the light of Palmer's "community of truth" (1998), which is aimed at developing an integrated perspective for understanding teachers' evolving personal practical knowledge in the SoTL community.

O autorze

Weijia Yang is PhD Graduate of Education Faculty, The University of Hong Kong and currently teaching at School of English Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, China. As a university academic, she specialises in research on scholarship of teaching and learning, teacher learning communities, and teachers'professional development.