In a study conducted by Maphosa and Wadesango in 2014 entitled Interrogating the role of Academic Developers in the promotion of scholarly teaching and the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), they implored further research along the same line of research in an endeavour to find ways over and around barriers in doing and applying quality Sotl work by eliminating such barriers so that it is not isolated from past traditions on which it is built upon. Related to this was the need to maintain a balance. This desktop study was there for conducted in order to scrutinise some of the past traditions in Higher Education on which SoTL is built, which may be confused with SoTL and articulate how they are related to SoTL. The following four past traditions were identified and discussed in detail in this study: classroom and programme assessment, action research, the reflective practice movement and peer review of teaching. Literature also shows that there are 2 terms closely related to SoTL which are good teaching and scholarly teaching. The study also discussed these terms in relation to the SoTL concept. \nKeywords: good teaching, scholarly teaching, action research, reflective teaching, traditional research

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