Learning about scholarship. We turn to the work of Boyer (1990) who poses some interesting emerging issues for an academy such as IMSA in their consideration of scholarship and scholarly activity and the identification of four types of scholarship. This was expanded to five types by McNabb and Pawlyshyn (2014): The scholarship of discovery, integration, application and engagement, teaching and learning and digital scholarship. (Table 1).
Boyer ultimately posits that:
- There is a need for a more inclusive view of what it means to be a scholar,recognizing that knowledge is acquired through research, through synthesis, through practice and through teaching.
- Faculty reward systems do not often match the full range of academic functions, competing obligations, and to reflect new realities of scholarship.