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. [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
