Responses to edwired’s post Making Digital Scholarship Count (2) raise the question, is a blog scholarship? I worry that our efforts to open up definitions of scholarship may create checklists—this is in, that’s out—that will further inhibit creativity and innovation. A blog seems to be an excellent way to develop a train of [...]
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Is a blog scholarship?
Posted in history, new media, popular history, scholarship, tagged blogs, Center for History and New Media, digital humanities on July 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Digital Scholarship Update
Posted in civic engagement, higher education, history, new media, public history, scholarship on June 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
T. Mills Kelly, author of thought-provoking, extended essays on teaching, has begun a new series, Making Digital Scholarship Count on his blog, edwired.
Cathy Davidson shared her thoughts in “Should Digital Scholarship Count for Tenure?” on her HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) blog. Davidson’s response seems to be a very, very qualified [...]
Civic and Community Engagement
Posted in Education, civic engagement, higher education, history, public history, scholarship, tagged Carnegie Foundation, Community Compact on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Wright State University 2008 Strategic Plan proposes adopting the Carnegie Classification for community and civic engagement for institutions of higher education. University adoption of the elective Carnegie Classification (under which scholarship is an optional category) may lead to greater recognition for work in public history and for other collaborative and applied research [...]
Boyerized
Posted in civic engagement, history, public history, scholarship, tagged academic, Boyer, Carnegie Foundation, Imagining America, promotion and tenure, public history, scholarship on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Each year at the National Council on Public History annual meeting, public history educators discuss the failure of departmental definitions of scholarship to reflect the work of public history faculty. Although historians seem deeply resistant to recognizing scholarship in both applied history and history education, this year there were some promising signs of change. [...]
Historical scholarship: “it wasn’t always so”
Posted in history, scholarship, tagged Center for History and New Media, Found History, history, scholarship, Tom Scheinfeldt on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an essay, “Sunset for Ideology, Sunrise for Methodology?” Tom Scheinfeldt suggests that the field of history is seeing a shift from a century of theoretical questions framed in monographs to a greater emphasis on methodology, collaboration, and organization. Over a century ago, he notes that bibliography was central to the academic enterprise in [...]
“We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”
Posted in Dayton, Education, civic engagement, narrative, oral history, scholarship, tagged civic engagement, civil rights, democratic citizenship, Harry Boyte, June Jordan, Kettering Foundation, Obama, peer-review, scholarship of service, service learning on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Harry Boyte, from the University of Minnesota, shared with us the history of the Obama campaign phrase, “we are the ones we have been waiting for.” In a column for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, he took Maureen Dowd to task for suggesting Maria Shriver was the source of the quote. Instead, Boyte recalls the [...]
Deliberative Democracy and Higher Education
Posted in Education, civic engagement, history, scholarship, tagged civic engagement, democratic citizenship, Harry Boyte, Kettering Foundation on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In preparation for the plenary session, the Kettering Foundation sent the following texts along with the framing statement and the David Mathews’ essay discussed earlier:
Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy and John Puckett, Dewey’s Dream: Universities and Democracies in an Age of Education Reform (Temple University Press, 2007)–this publication addresses a theme that would be repeated [...]
The Past Discussed Quarterly
Posted in history, scholarship, tagged archaeology, blog, Cliopatria, Creative Commons, peer-review, scholarship, The Past Discussed Quarterly on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Ancient World Bloggers Group has announced the publication of a new journal. The Past Discussed Quarterly (PDQ) is a serious answer to those who have been uncomfortable recognizing digital scholarship in the absence of peer review. The quarterly will “provide a bridge between bloggers in the broadest sense and non-blogging academics.” The publication does [...]
On Defining Scholarship
Posted in civic engagement, history, scholarship, tagged digital history, history education, public history, public scholarship, scholarship, the academy on January 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Academic historians too often seek to impose, in the name of standards, a narrow definition of scholarship. Valuable historical scholarship is only, I’ve been told, peer-reviewed print scholarship about a period of time or place in the past. While oral history makes its way into the definition, public history, history education, and public [...]
