1st Edition

The Challenge to Scholarship Rethinking Learning, Teaching and Research

By Gill Nicholls Copyright 2005
    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    174 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Challenge to Scholarship is a lively and engaging investigation that seeks to establish what it means to be a scholar and the value of scholarship. It addresses current concerns and tensions including the scholarship of teaching and the relationship between teaching and research.
    Gill Nicholls gets right to the heart of the debate over scholarship and declares that a reconceptualization of scholarship within universities is required, outlining the changes involved and the practical implications for higher education institutions of the future.

    Part 1 Establishing the concept of scholarship 1 Why challenge scholarship? 2 Historical concepts of scholarship Part 2 Policy and power: influences on scholarship 3 Policy and initiatives: the need to reconceptualize scholarship 4 Scholarship of teaching: an emerging concept 5 Disciplines and scholarship: challenging the power 6 An international perspective: the implications of scholarship for professionalism Part 3 Challenging the future7 Scholarship: the challenge of the future 8 Scholarship: a hostage to 9 Final comments

    Biography

    Gill Nicholls is Professor of Education and Director of King’s Institute of Learning and Teaching at King’s College London. Gill has extensive research experience and has published widely. She is also involved in consultancy work evaluating university learning and teaching strategies and learning and teaching research strategies.