Globalising the local: The scholarship of teaching and learning in a larger context

The scholarship of teaching and learning movement has developed over the last 20 years in large part in response to changing circumstances in higher education. Its focus is generally practical and localised, aimed at improving student learning. This is both a strength and a limitation. On the whole, the scholarship of teaching and learning movement has not taken root in non-Western countries, and this is worth considering in a world where disciplinary research is global. This paper concludes that the scholarship of teaching and learning needs to enlarge the contexts within which it conducts its analysis of teaching and learning by taking greater account of who the students taught in higher education are.