By Ernest L. Boyer

The Carnegie beginning for the development of educating Ernest L. Boyer's Scholarship Reconsidered bargains a brand new paradigm that acknowledges the whole variety of scholarly job by way of collage and collage school and questions the life of a present approach that driven school towards study and ebook and clear of instructing.

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This more integrated view of knowledge was expressed elo­ quently by Mark Van Doren nearly thirty years ago when he wrote: "The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. "7 It is through "connectedness" that research ultimately is made authentic. The scholarship of integration is, of course, closely related to dis­ covery. "8 Such work is, in fact, increasingly important as traditional disciplinary categories prove confining, forcing new topologies of knowledge.

Faculty may not view research as their preferred function and yet, year after year, they are often held to this single measure of success. Table 8 Do Your Interests Lie Primarily in Research or in Teaching? SOURCE:TheCarnegieFoundationfortheAdvancementofTeaching,1989NationalSurvey ofFaculty. To counter burnout or stagnation, scholarship in its fullest sense must be acknowledged. This means not only broadening the reward system, but also creating flexible and varied career paths for profes­ sors.

This potential was used by Jacob Bronowski, the British scholar, in his series "The Ascent of Man," which was broadcast on American public television in the early 1970s--a presentation of Western intellectual history in which Bronowski, educated as a mathematician, could extend brilliantly his insightful talents as a poet, inventor, and playwright. Designing new courses and participating in curricular innovations are examples of yet another type of professional work deserving recognition. Those who help shape a core curriculum or prepare a cross-disciplinary seminar surely are engaged in the scholarship of in­ tegration and, again, such activity should be acknowledged and rewarded.

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