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 advanc...

Many nurse academicians are also advanced practice nurses (APNs) in the United States (U.S.). Such faculty are often involved in clinical practice activities which require specific competencies for meeting legal responsibilities and standards for safety. Maintaining practice expectations often takes away the time necessary to address traditional scholarship expected by U.S. institutions for adv...

Recently, a claim was made, on the basis of the German Google Books 1-gram corpus (Michel et al., Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Science 2010; 331: 176–82), that there was a linear relationship between six non-technical non-Nazi words and three ‘explicitly Nazi words’ in times of World War II (Caruana-Galizia. 2015. Politics and the German language: Testing ...

David R. Hansen is Digital Library Fellow at the University of California Berkeley School of Law; e-mail: [email protected]. William M. Cross is Director of the Copyright & Digital Scholarship Center at North Carolina State University; e-mail: [email protected]. Phillip M. Edwards is Instructional Consultant in the Center for Teaching Excellence at Virginia Commonwealth University; e-mail...

Using an expanded definition of scholarship that goes beyond the scholarship of discovery (research) to include the scholarship of integration, the scholarship of application, and the scholarship of teaching, this article explains interrelationships among these scholarship types in health professions and specifically dental education. Such interrelationships can lead to meaningful expansion of ...

BACKGROUND There is a scarcity of research published on clinical scholarship. Much of the conceptualisation has been conducted in the academy. Nurse academics espouse that the practice of nursing must be built within a framework of clinical scholarship. A key concept of clinical scholarship emerging from discussions in the literature is that it is an essential component of enabling evidence-bas...

The intention of Classics in Cartography is to provide an intellectually-driven reinterpretation of a selection of some of the most influential articles from the last thirty years of academic cartography research. The ten chosen ‘classic’ articles were written by a range of the leading academic cartographers, geographers and allied scholars. Theywere all published in the international peer-revi...

Background: Education For Environmental Public Scholarship Public scholarship is scholarship that is used to inform public debate of the issues we face as a society. Likewise, education for public scholarship connects classroom concepts to societal issues and helps students act as educated citizens within a democracy. This is especially important for environmental issues given the urgent and co...

background: since 2009, evaluation of scholarship in teaching activities of faculty members is considered for their promotion in iran. until now, policies regarding the minimum obligatory scholarship score required for promotion have changed dramatically. the effects of changes in policies on the scholarship activities of faculty members of mashhad university of medical sciences (mums) are eval...