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Journal Article
Repositioning SoTL toward the T-shaped Community
2021
Overview
Amongst a range of changes that have taken place within tertiary education, perhaps the most revolutionary has been a shift to student-centred approaches focused on lifelong learning. Accompanying this approach to holistic higher education (HE) has been a growing interest in, and understanding of, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). SoTL has, at its core, a deep concern with student learning, and is therefore well-aligned with HE's renewed focus on its students. In this conceptual paper, we examine the impact of the 'Tshaped person' which many tertiary institutions are using as a concept to inform and connect the development of students' deep disciplinary knowledge with non-academic and employment readiness skills (such as communication, problem-solving, teamwork, and critical thinking). Importantly, we argue for a repositioning of SoTL to complement and support this model, with SoTL forming both the fulcrum and the fluid, multiple threads of discourse that are intricately entwined around the structure of the T-shaped model. We encourage our colleagues to strive to be T-shaped practitioners, and we cast a vision of a Tshaped community. Here, all stakeholders within HE connect both their academic knowledge and holistic skills in collaborative ways to produce learners who flourish in modern society. The SoTL community plays a pivotal role in achieving this vision and is well-positioned to expand the current notion of SoTL to allow it to play a more holistic, interconnected, central role in HE.
