He asserts that SOTL needs to be rooted more in active practice and concrete connected knowing. Said another way, scholarship of teaching and learning should take forms that properly reside in the upper left quadrant

Adapting the learning cycle of David Kolb to SOTL, Gene Rice sees traditional scholarship … particularly the so-called “social science model” … as characterized by reflective observation and abstract analytic knowing. It therefore resides in the lower right quadrant of his diagram.