Perspectives on the scholarship of teaching.

Educators were catapulted forward in their thinking about scholarship in 1990 when Boyer proposed a broader definition. Research, the discovery of new knowledge, is the traditionally recognised form of scholarship. Boyer conceptualised research as representing only a single form and identified the areas of application, integration and teaching also as scholarship. Any type of scholarship advances or transforms knowledge in a discipline through the application of the scholar’s intellect in an informed, disciplined and creative manner. Scholarship is demonstrated by a peer-reviewed, publicly disseminated product. Fifteen years on, we propose that teaching itself is not scholarship, but teaching can include the scholarship of application, integration and research.