Balancing Acts: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Academic Careers (2005)

Mary Taylor Huber

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Publisher: Washington, DC: The American Association for Higher Education and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Abstract:
How can faculty integrate the scholarship of teaching and learning into their academic careers? Balancing Acts addresses this question through the experience of four scholars who have been innovators in their own classrooms, leaders of education initiatives in their institutions and disciplines, and pioneers in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Drawing on interviews with Dan Bernstein (psychology, University of Nebraska), Brian Coppola (chemistry, University of Michigan), Sheri Sheppard (mechanical engineering, Stanford University), Randy Bass (American literature, Georgetown University), and colleagues within and outside their institutions and fields, the author looks at the routes these pathfinders have traveled through the scholarship of teaching and learning and at the consequences that this unusual work has had for the advancement of their careers, especially tenure and promotion.

Categories:
Undergraduate Education > Teaching & Learning

Additional Resources: See related essay, "Balancing Acts: Designing Careers Around the Scholarship of Teaching" in Change, July/August 2001

Related Program(s):
Cultures of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Related Scholar(s): Mary Huber