Editorial: Grappling with Authenticity and Higher Education

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Buttarazzi, G. and Kidd, W. 2025. Editorial: Grappling with Authenticity and Higher Education. Patterns of Practice. 1 (1), pp. 4-7. https://doi.org/10.15123/uel.8zz0w
AuthorsButtarazzi, G. and Kidd, W.
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In this, our first issue of Patterns of Practice, we have chosen to begin our journal’s life by exploring the perception of authenticity in higher education (HE) in the collated contributions that follow. Rather than use this editorial space to review our general aims and aspirations for our new Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) journal and for SoTL in the UK as a whole, we have taken the opportunity, within the theme of ‘authenticity’, to provide a longer discussion of the aims and remit of the journal in our first article contribution, removing it from this brief editorial discussion.

We have chosen ‘authenticity’ as our first collated theme for this, our first Issue, as we feel that it is central to the project of SoTL as a whole. We see authenticity as key to the intentionality that ‘good SoTL’ exemplifies.

JournalPatterns of Practice
Journal citation1 (1), pp. 4-7
ISSN3050-2381
3050-239X
Year2025
PublisherDepartment of Education, School of Childhood and Social Care and the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), University of East London
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