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

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Invited Essays

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Positioning Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning

In this short invited essay I want to raise some concerns about positioning scholarship on teaching and learning within the disciplines.  As this journal and others attest, not all pedagogical work is located there, but with the recent interest in scholarly work on teaching and learning there has been an accompanying move to more firmly wed pedagogical scholarship to the disciplines (Healey 2000).  I’d like to begin with what is lost when the preference is for pedagogical scholarship owned by the disciplines.

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Bio

Maryellen Weimer
Pennsylvania State University-Berks
Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
grg@psu.edu

I am an Emeritus Professor of Teaching and Learning, recently retired from Penn State . For 21 years I have edited the Teaching Professor newsletter and just recently started a Teaching Professor newsletter blog. I have authored eight books, most recently Learner-Centered Teaching and Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning. Currently I'm working on a book that addresses career-long growth and development for college teachers. I still do presentations and workshops on a variety of teaching and learning topics and have at this point done work on more than 450 college and university campuses in the States and Canada.

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