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- Title: Scholarship Reconsidered: Tutor-Scholars As Undergraduate Researchers (Essay)
- Author : Jeanne Marie Grobman, Laurie Rose
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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In Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, Ernest Boyer proposes a model of faculty scholarship that includes discovery, integration, application, and teaching such that the elements "dynamically interact, forming an interdependent whole" (25). By making the case that "theory surely leads to practice. But practice also leads to theory" (16), Boyer's report addresses the value and significance of multiple intellectual activities. In this way, it challenges the research/teaching hierarchy, advocates for a rethinking of academic roles and responsibilities, and calls for greater recognition of professional accomplishments. In the two decades since Boyer's proposal, scholars, professors, and administrators have discussed the implications of this broader model for faculty. We believe, however, that Boyer's expanded conception of scholarship can also be applied to peer tutoring in writing and the curricular movement known as undergraduate research. Certainly, as the Writing Lab Newsletter, which published the first "Tutors' Corner" article in 1984, and other professional organizations would be quick to point out, peer tutors are already engaged in undergraduate research. Yet, just as Boyer believes "we urgently need a more creative view of the work of the professoriate" (xii), we argue that an expanded undergraduate research pedagogy enables a parallel orientation for writing tutors. Peer tutors' work entails a synthesis of activities analogous to Boyer's four interrelated kinds of scholarship--discovery, integration, application, and teaching (or, for our purposes, tutoring). Peer tutors' practical tutoring and theoretical knowledge continually shape one another, the tutors are often called upon to do institutional outreach and service, and they frequently share their work with audiences beyond their home institutions. By making these connections--interpersonally and across fields of knowledge--peer tutors are poised to achieve what Boyer characterizes as "the work of the scholar" (16).