International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 3, Number 1, January 2009
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What Scholarship of Teaching? Why Bother?
Since its ‘launch’ a couple of decades ago, “scholarship
of teaching” has been increasingly acknowledged on many campuses
in and beyond North America. It has been incorporated into mission statements
and strengthened the professionalisation of teaching and concomitant
interest in faculty development, peer review and the teaching portfolio.
Boyer (1997) reported that the need to recognise and find an appropriate
balance between different forms of scholarship has led the majority
of campuses in the United States to revise their standards for tenure
and promotion, while there have also been changes...
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Daphne Pan
Department of English Language & Literature
National University of Singapore
Singapore
ellpand@nus.edu.sg
I received my higher education in Singapore, Canada and England, and am a full-time faculty member of the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore, with special interest in 19th Century English literature. I was seconded to set up the Centre for Development of Teaching & Learning and served as its director for more than a decade till August 2008, and currently continue in an advisory role. In both capacities as teacher and administrator, I have a keen and abiding interest in student learning and how teachers and the institution might better enable effective and lasting learning. My education-related projects have included learning approaches, student feedback, learning-centred assessment, and I am currently working on “profiling” scholarship of teaching at NUS.