Each of these is relevant to those working in Extension. Boyer may have given us the most insight by outlining the scholarship of integration and application. The best educators working in an Extension context are continually involved in the scholarship of integration. Extension virtually requires the ability to bring together the results of several areas of research to define meaning and insight. Most of Extension education requires ideas and research results from several disciplines.
Extension is also an excellent environment for the scholarship of application.
Application, according to Boyer, involves the following sorts of questions. The process we have in mind is far more dynamic. It's precisely the richness of understanding from application of ideas to real problems that attracts us to work in Extension. Our colleagues find joy in the scholarship of discovery and we find satisfaction in the insight from application. We have a major challenge to show our role in institutions that recognize all the elements of scholarship.