- Title
- SoTL: A mechanism for understanding and finding solutions to teaching and learning challenges
- Creator
- Vorster, Jo-Anne A
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/445727
- Identifier
- vital:74419
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.36615/sotls.v4i2.149
- Description
- The paper argues that the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a necessary strategy for mitigating the many teaching and learning challenges in South African higher education that prevent a large proportion of students from achieving academic success. Research suggests that well-structured and coordinated educational practices that are valued and supported by institutions are crucial for student success. While there exists a very useful body of scholarship on teaching and learning in higher education in South Africa, the persistently high levels of student failure and dropout across the system points to the need for more research into teaching and learning dilemmas in diverse institutional, disciplinary and classroom contexts. I argue that if more academics are to conduct SoTL, it has to be valued and supported by institutions and academic leaders. Even though more SoTL is needed to contribute to solving the many pedagogic dilemmas South African academics encounter, it is counter-productive to expect all academics to conduct SoTL. Rigorous SoTL requires immersion in educational ideas, concepts, theories and research processes. Many academics may not have the time or inclination to work in the area of SoTL, but I suggest that all must be scholarly teachers of their disciplines.
- Format
- 16 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, Vorster, J.A., 2020. SoTL: A mechanism for understanding and finding solutions to teaching and learning challenges. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, 4(2), pp.6-21, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South volume 4 number 4 6 21 2020
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- Publisher
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South Statement (https://journals.uj.ac.za/SOTL/index.php/sotls)
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Vorster, Jo-Anne (Prof)
RU Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning (CHERTL)
SDG 17. Partnerships for the Goals
RU Department of Education
SDG 04. Quality Education
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