A Study of the CASTL Program in the United States: Implications from Comparative Analyses of Three Professors’ SoTL Projects

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  • 米国大学のCASTL プログラムに関する研究 : ３教授の実践の比較考察からの示唆
  • ベイコク ダイガク ノ CASTL プログラム ニ カンスル ケンキュウ 3 キョウジュ ノ ジッセン ノ ヒカク コウサツ カラ ノ シサ

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The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is an attempt to improve teaching and learning processes through scholarly inquiry into classroom practice by professors. SoTL has become an important movement in higher education in the United States since the late 1990s. Focusing on the Carnegie Academy for theScholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL), established in 1998 to promote the movement, this paper comparatively examines the SoTL projects of three professors in chemistry, history, and political science, who participated in the CASTL’s Scholars Program. It aimed at discovering similarities and differences in the contents and methods of the projects based on the diversity of their fields, as well as in theirviews of the features and effects of the program that were based on their experiences in participating in an interdisciplinary communityof professors. This study found that despite the differences in their fields reflected in the diversity of their SoTL projects and disciplinary styles, the three professors recognized tremendous value in theScholars Program, especially in terms of its provision of space and access to interdisciplinary colleagues for discussing educational problems, as well as its supply of valuable lectures and seminars, especially regarding education research methods, which led to some borrowing of methodologies.

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