What are Scholarship and Theory and Why are they Significant? A Few Lines

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

                                   What  are Scholarship and Theory and Why are they Significant? 

 

                                                                          A Few Lines

                                                                 Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

Scholarship is a determined effort made to make sense of the world in a critical manner using an expressive medium. Other uses of these media are not obliged to pursue such standards of critical rigour but such rigour is the essence of scholarly expression, regardless of the presence or absence of other aspects of the paraphenalia of scholarship which complement  the drive towards critical engagement. 

Scholarship, therefore, is  a primary approach to understanding the universe with a sensitivity to the tension between things as they are and things as they are seen by human beings, the only balanced navigational space for the human being in a complex and puzzling universe. Scholarly texts in various media are therefore strategic to humanity, being core to the  transmission of civilization.

A particularly strategic aspect of scholarship is theory, large scale structures of understanding representing relationships between concreteness and abstraction,  helping map the structure and dynamism of the world and the universe at smaller and larger scales.