Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate

by Ernest L. Boyer, Drew Moser, Todd C. Ream, John M. Braxton

Overview

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Ernest L. Boyer?s Scholarship Reconsidered offers a new paradigm that recognizes the full range of scholarly activity by college and university faculty and questions the existence of a reward system that pushed faculty toward research and publication and away from teaching.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781119005865
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/06/2015
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	951 KB

About the Author

ERNEST L. BOYER (1928–1995) was commissioner of education under President Jimmy Carter and served for 16 years as president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

DREW MOSER is dean of experiential learning and associate professor of higher education at Taylor University.

TODD C. REAM is professor of higher education at Taylor University and research fellow with Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion. He is the coauthor of Christian Faith and Scholarship: An Exploration of Contemporary Developments, from Jossey-Bass.

JOHN M. BRAXTON is professor of higher education at Vanderbilt University. He is the editor of Analyzing Faculty Work and Rewards: Using Boyer's Four Domains of Scholarship and Rethinking College Student Retention, both from Jossey-Bass.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.
Preface.
1. Scholarship over Time.
2. Enlarging the Perspective.
3. The Faculty: A Mosaic of Talent.
4. The Creativity Contract.
5. The Campuses: Diversity with Dignity.
6. A New Generation of Scholars.
7. Scholarship and Community.