The Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning

Selected On-line Articles

Bass, Randy. 1999. The Scholarship of Teaching: What's the Problem? inventio 1 (1).
Found on-line at http://www.doiiit.gmu.edu/Archives/feb98/rbass.htm
Bass writes, “Changing the status of the problem in teaching from terminal remediation to ongoing investigation is precisely what the movement for a scholarship of teaching is all about.” In this article, Bass reflects on his own engagement with the scholarship of teaching to illustrate how faculty can investigate and analyze the complexities of teaching and learning and then communicate their findings to professional colleagues.

Cambridge, Barbara. 1999. The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Questions and Answers from the Field, AAHE Bulletin 52 (3): 7-10.
Found on-line at http://www.aahe.org/dec99f2.htm
Cambridge considers five questions typically asked by faculty as they take up the topic of the scholarship of teaching and learning. She draws from the field to address each question in turn, noting that answers are continuing to be generated as participants approach work in the scholarship of teaching and learning from a variety of perspectives.

Hutchings, Pat and Lee S. Shulman. 1999. The Scholarship of Teaching: New Elaborations, New Developments. Change 31 (5):11-15.
Found on-line at http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary/docs/sotl1999.htm
Hutchings and Shulman look at how the concept and practice of the scholarship of teaching has evolved since it first appeared in the early nineties, with special reference to the Carnegie program.

Shulman, Lee S. 2000. From Minsk to Pinsk: Why a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (JoSoTL) 1 (1):48-52
Found on-line at http://titans.iusb.edu/josotl/VOL_1/NO_1/shulman_vol_1_no_1.htm
Shulman proposes three rationales for the scholarship of teaching and learning: professionalism, pragmatism, and policy.

Shulman, L.S. 1999. Taking Learning Seriously. Change 31, 4: 11-17.
Found on-line at http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/elibrary/docs/taking.htm
Shulman identifies three pathologies of learning—amnesia, fantasia, and inertia—and proposes that these pathologies can be remedied through scholarly investigations of teaching practice.

September 2003