ABSTRACT
Occupational therapy has embraced and is committed to evidence-based practice in the clinic as well as the classroom. Recognising the profession’s need to establish the effi cacy of both therapeutic and educational practices, the American Occupational Th erapy Association described the types of scholarship that contribute to this eff ort, including the Scholarship of Discovery (SoD), the Scholarship of Integration (SoI), the Scholarship of Application (SoA) and the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoLT). SoD refers to activities which produce and advance new knowledge. In occupational therapy education, this involves conducting research to help explain and inform the understanding of occupational therapy students and the processes involved in their transformation into practitioners. Over time, scholars may develop a body of knowledge specifi c to occupational therapy education and generate new theoretical perspectives. Assimilating knowledge from occupational therapy and other disciplines through SoI may lay the groundwork for development of conceptual frameworks tailored to the needs of students seeking to grasp the art and science of occupational therapy practice. Th ese frameworks can then be used to develop instructional approaches and methods for SoA and to test these strategies utilising SoLT.1
