ABSTRACT

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a new discipline, with seeds sown by educational theorists of the early twentieth century and blossoming in the 1990s. As an inherently interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field focusing on higher education, SoTL interrogates a range of subjects, encompasses a variety of genres, and uses a swath of methodologies. What is lacking in the literature and its application, however, is sustained engagement with the great pedagogical thinkers of the past. Using the methods of textual analysis, this article explores the pedagogical advice of Augustine of Hippo in his De catechizandis rudibus, categorizing Augustine's major themes in alignment with four key topics of SoTL: instructor disposition, learning environment, presentation of material, and knowing students. These convergences suggest that ancient thinkers are vastly underused sources of pedagogical knowledge and a possible entry point for educational developers working with faculty unfamiliar with or resistant to SoTL.

摘要

教学奖学金（SoTL）是一门新兴学科，由二十世纪初的教育理论家播下种子，并在 20 世纪 90 年代开花结果。作为一个本质上专注于高等教育的跨学科和跨学科领域，SoTL 探讨了一系列主题，涵盖多种流派，并使用多种方法。然而，文献及其应用中缺乏的是与过去伟大的教育思想家的持续接触。本文运用文本分析的方法，探讨了希波的奥古斯丁在其《儿茶经》中的教学建议。，根据 SoTL 的四个关键主题对奥古斯丁的主要主题进行分类：教师性格、学习环境、材料呈现和了解学生。这些融合表明，古代思想家是教学知识的未充分利用的来源，也是教育开发人员与不熟悉或抵制 SoTL 的教师一起工作的可能切入点。