Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal Content

As educators within Human Movement Sciences (HMS) at a South African tertiary institution, there’s a distinct set of challenges and opportunities as we shape the trajectory of this dynamic discipline. Our journey to craft an impactful poster, “SoTL in Human …

By Jennifer Löfgreen Like most of us in SoTL, I came to the field with research training from a discipline. Mydiscipline was chemistry. I was trained to produce new knowledge using controlled systems inwhich I could design and run experiments, …

By Irma Meijerman, Femke Kirschner and Frans Prins Many faculty members struggle with how to start with SoTL, especially at research-intensive universities. What challenges do they face? What hurdles are there to be taken?But mainly, how can we support those …

By Cherie Woolmer, Nattalia Godbold, Isabel Treanor, Natalie McCray, Ketevan Kupatadze, Peter Felten and Catherine Bovill As a group of students and faculty, we wanted to explore the real experiences of what it’s liketo “do” partnership, which pushed beyond some …

By Peter Doolittle, Krista Wojdak and Amanda Walters Active learning has become the sine qua non of quality higher education pedagogy. If one’steaching fosters active learning, then all is well . . . sort of . . . potentially . …

By Paul T. Corrigan I’ve often thought that critical reading was more or less inherently liberatory—inherently poised to push readers toward freedom from oppressive ideas and structures like racism.  How, for example, can readers give a text like The Narrative …

By Emily Russell, Nolan Kline, Amy I. McClure, Steven W. Schoen and Nancy L. Chick As college instructors who frequently teach contentious topics, we have seen firsthand how an increasingly polarized global climate has powerful and competing effects on classrooms. …

By Peter Felten, Rachel Forsyth and Kathryn A. Sutherland Trust is an important aspect of teaching and learning. It can positively–and negatively—affect the ways that students interact with teachers, with each other, and with knowledge. Yet the moves that teachers …