Our international SoTL journey: brokering across academic hierarchies and boundaries

Abstract

ABSTRACT Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) practices often require brokering across academic and disciplinary boundaries. As a group of seven diverse international SoTL scholars, we utilise scholarly personal narratives (SPN) as our methodology to document and explore our experiences of brokering across our multiple roles, disciplines and contexts. Guided by Simmons’s 4M framework, we examine brokering within and across micro, meso, macro, and mega levels, illuminating the complexity of brokering. Our focus in this article is on the ways that brokering strengthens one’s sense of identity, sense of legitimacy, and sense of community as a SoTL practitioner. Our study contributes to the broader SoTL literature by seeking to reaffirm SoTL as its own unique and legitimate field, emphasising the importance and complexity of brokering, and encouraging and supporting others who work within SoTL.