Activities of the Professoriate: A new perspective on scholarship

Abstract

A persistent presumption is that research activity solely constitutes scholarship, with the exclusion of teaching and service, the other two activities of the professoriate. The purpose of this review is to promote awareness on the multidimensional nature of scholarship. This paper presents an observable trend on the subject of scholarship among academics, with particular reference to physiotherapy practice and teaching. It outlines the three requirements of scholarly activity, and elucidates on the scholarship of discovery, the scholarship of application, the scholarship of integration and the
scholarship of teaching and learning. It also offers an insight into the activities that are considered scholastic and those that are not. The scholarship of teaching is an option open to the entire professoriate. The physiotherapy academicians and clinicians are challenged to embrace true scholarship.

KEY WORDS: scholarship, discovery, integration, teaching, learning, application