Diverse Methodological Approaches and Considerations for SoTL in Higher Education

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is a distinctive form of research that is shaped by multi-disciplinary contexts and focuses on practice-driven institutional/curricula/classroom inquiries with an explicit transformational agenda. This essay provides critical insight to the importance of communities of SoTL practitioners, diverse investigations and methodological approaches within and across disciplines. For example, through an integrated and iterative process, a community of SoTL researchers plays a critical role to enhance and sustain on-going SoTL research. Equal to all forms of research endeavour, interpretations of SoTL research require a healthy scepticism, analysis of methodological rigour, and an openness to alternative perspectives and analysis. L'avancement des connaissances en enseignement et apprentissage (ACEA) dans l'enseignement superieur est une forme de recherche distinctive faconnee par des contextes multidisciplinaires. Axee sur la pratique, elle est centree sur caracterisee par des enquetes sur des institutions, des programmes d’enseignement et des classes, tout en axee sur la pratique et visant un objectif transformationnel explicite. Cet essai fournit un apercu critique de l’importance des communautes d’intervenants de l’ACEA et des diverses enquetes et approches methodologiques au sein de chaque discipline et entre elles. Par exemple, grâce a un processus integre et iteratif, la communaute des chercheurs en ACEA joue un role essentiel en ameliorant la recherche continue sur ce sujet et en la soutenant. Independamment du sujet considere, l’interpretation de la recherche sur l’ACEA suppose de faire preuve d’un scepticisme sain, d’analyser la rigueur methodologique et d’etre ouvert aux autres perspectives et analyses.

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