PATTERNS OF PRACTICE

Dr. Gabriella F. Buttarazzi and Dr. Warren Kidd are the co-founders and co-editors-in-chief of Patterns of Practice, a peer-reviewed open-access journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at the University of East London.

Published twice a year, the journal offers an exploratory, rigorous, and creative space for informed debate, practice, and discussion on all aspects of SoTL in higher education. The editors welcome submissions on all current and pertinent aspects of teaching and learning, particularly matters of inclusivity, authenticity, and twenty-first-century readiness. However, beyond these matters, the editors invite fresh perspectives to SoTL. The scope of the journal is multidisciplinary and international in its reach, and the work selected for publication seeks to foster the development of praxis around higher education practice.

The editors especially invite scholarship from all practitioners who design, adopt, assess, evaluate, and research either first-person or a combination of first-, second-, and third-person inquiry. Given the long-held dominance of third-person inquiry in the neoliberal academy, Patterns of Practice especially seeks to amplify first-person inquiry of practitioners and students in an endeavour to unearth both alternative ways of knowing in higher education and alternative visions of higher education.

While nurturing and publicising inquiry, creativity and criticality within higher education, Patterns of Practice also seeks to stimulate, provoke, and extend discussion and debate with other professionals associated with this field. The journal adopts an open, critical, reflective, and interdisciplinary approach to SoTL. Issues are ‘themed’ around ‘big ideas’ that encompass the emotive, collaborative, and critical aspects of SoTL, such as authenticity, creativity, innovation, and contemplation.