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Article: The new scholarship requires a new epistemology. (theory of knowledge)(Cover Story)
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- November 1, 1995
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If we intend to pursue the "new forms of scholarship" that Ernest Boyer presents in his Scholarship Reconsidered, we cannot avoid questions of epistemology, since the new forms of scholarship he describes challenge the epistemology built into the modem research university.
In addition to basic research--Boyer's scholarship of discovery, which "has come to be viewed as the first and most essential form of scholarship, with other functions flowing from it"--Boyer envisions three new forms of scholarship.
* The scholarship of integration gives meaning to isolated facts, "putting them into perspective ... making connections across disciplines, placing the ...