Inside Higher Ed: Has scholarship been reconsidered
Teaching vs. research. That divide — real or imagined — has shaped many a faculty career and many a debate over priorities in higher education. And the dichotomy continues to be discussed today.
In 1990, however, Ernest Boyer published one of the more influential of his later works, Scholarship Reconsidered, which contended that the dichotomy was false. Boyer, who died in 1995, argued that there were multiple forms of scholarship, not just the form that produces new knowledge through laboratory breakthroughs, journal articles or new books. Scholarship, Boyer argued, also encompassed the application of knowledge, the engagement of scholars with the broader world, and the way scholars teach.
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