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You’re Here! Now What? A Taxonomical Pathway for Sustained SoTL Research Engagement” by Jeff Paul, Jillian Seniuk Cicek, and Renato Bezerra Rodrigues presents a taxonomy for SoTL as a tool for developing a SoTL research agenda. Since the taxonomy was derived from a systematic review of the literature, the authors describe how it maps the field, while also acknowledging that a taxonomy may be too reductionist for some readers and too holistic for others. Ultimately, they argue that such a taxonomy provides a common language within SoTL, thus building understanding and connecting studies across the breadth and depth of the field.

Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.36284/celelon.oa6.12

Discussion Questions

  • Throughout this book, many of the chapter questions ask about the difficulties you’ve encountered in your journey to becoming a SoTL scholar. How might a SoTL taxonomy help you address these difficulties?
  • Choose a favorite SoTL article, one that you or another person has written, and conceptualize it through the taxonomy, assigning at least one keyword from each branch. Next, using the taxonomy, investigate how you could change or continue to develop this research by, for example, choosing a different research method, a different context, or a different focus. How would this help you advance your research agenda?