Professionalizing teaching in higher education? Understanding today’s discourse on scholarship of teaching and learning in relation to the question of widening participation within higher education
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Our introduction will contextualize and give a brief background to the last decade´s discussion and request for pedagogically more skilled and trained university teachers. A discourse often framed by and named as Scholarship of Teaching and Training, SoTL. Teaching at university level has until recently, unlike most other educational institutions, not required any formal pedagogical education. In spite of often being skilled after years of teaching, the majority of Swedish university teachers still have less then the recommended ten weeks pedagogical training. \nThe purpose of the workshop is to illuminate the emerging practice SoTL. How is it framed and who and what influences and shapes the discourse? Should it be seen as an embryo to professionalize university teaching by valuing teaching excellence? Or should it be understood as a perceived need for a new kind of pedagogical competence in order to handle the consequences of the rapid expansion of higher education during the 90´
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Our introduction will contextualize and give a brief background to the last decade´s discussion and request for pedagogically more skilled and trained university teachers. A discourse often framed by and named as Scholarship of Teaching and Training, SoTL. Teaching at university level has until recently, unlike most other educational institutions, not required any formal pedagogical education. In spite of often being skilled after years of teaching, the majority of Swedish university teachers still have less then the recommended ten weeks pedagogical training. \nThe purpose of the workshop is to illuminate the emerging practice SoTL. How is it framed and who and what influences and shapes the discourse? Should it be seen as an embryo to professionalize university teaching by valuing teaching excellence? Or should it be understood as a perceived need for a new kind of pedagogical competence in order to handle the consequences of the rapid expansion of higher education during the 90´
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