BLACKPOOL AND THE FYLDE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP REVIEW 2021
The Scholarship and Research Development Scheme (SRDS)
Blackpool and The Fylde College has established a fund to support the scholarly activity of members of academic and support staff who wish to enhance their scholarship and develop their role in the College. The Scholarship and Research Development Scheme (SRDS) was developed and piloted as part of the Teaching Quality Enhancement Project during 2007. Since its inception the scheme has supported a wide variety of projects centered in and around the development of subject expertise and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
What is Scholarship? There have been various debates about what actually constitutes scholarly activity and in particular how scholarship is actually relevant to vocationally based higher education. Blackpool and The Fylde College has developed a hierarchical model of scholarship (see Fig 1) which can be used as a framework upon which to organise scholarly development and to inform teaching and learning quality enhancement.
Fig 1:
The Blackpool and The Fylde Hierarchical Model of Scholarship
New Knowledge (Discovery & Conception)
Action Research
Reading and Research
(Integration, Application & Communication)
(Informed Teacher)
Reflective Teaching Practice
(Integration & Application of Knowledge)
Scholarship is the driving force that influences and informs the development of curriculum which is not only about what we teach and who we teach, but also how we teach.
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