International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 2, Number 1, January 2008

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Essays about SoTL

Excerpt

In 2004 I decided to apply for promotion from Senior Lecturer to Associate Professor. Mine is an Australian research intensive university. Having reviewed the promotion literature, I decided to seek promotion based on an ‘outstanding’ contribution to teaching and learning. At the time the university was expending far greater efforts to improve teaching and learning after rating very poorly on a national student survey. Having made a contribution to the furthering of teaching and learning, the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education) and the head of the recently established teaching and learning unit were quick to offer their support to my application. Indeed the Pro-Vice Chancellor volunteered to be one of my referees.

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Bio

Sean Brawley
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
s.brawley@unsw.edu.au

I am an Associate Professor of History and Faculty Academic Fellow (Teaching and Learning) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Recognition of my teaching includes reception of the UNSW Vice Chancellors Award for Teaching Excellence, the Australian College of Educators Quality Teaching Award, and the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. I have published on the internationalisation of SOTL in the discipline of history and use of role-playing in humanities teaching. I am one of the founders of HistorySOTL : the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History. Current SOTL research includes national difference and the role of cognitive apprenticeship in the study of history.

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