An Analysis of Prospects for Changing Faculty Roles and Rewards: Can Scholarship Be Reconsidered?
- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- the fourteenth-dudley-allen-sargent-lecture
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quest
- Vol. 47 (4) , 506-524
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00336297.1995.10484172
Abstract
Ernest Boyer's book, Scholarship Reconsidered (1990) is examined through use of Sarason's (1982) construct of regularities, and Lewin's (1976) force field analysis model for understanding behavior. It is concluded that prospects for implementing Boyer's proposals for renewal of the American university through restructuring faculty roles and rewards will depend less on simply urging the case for reform, and more on devising strategies that respond to forces shaping the present regularities of academic life. In particular, it is asserted that successful change in the definition of scholarship will be possible only through reduction of the resistance produced by legitimate concerns about altering the present system.Keywords
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