CHAPTER 19 Generous Scholarship: A Counternarrative for the Region and the Academy Cheryl J. Craig Introduction The seedbed of this chapter traces to an invited keynote address I was to give at the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching (ISATT) Conference at Lucien Blaga University in Sibiu, Romania in 2019. Unfortunately, a compelling topic about which to speak did not immediately come to mind. For months, I lived in fear, dreading that any day the conference organizers would contact me and request a title and abstract of my talk for publicity purposes. To make matters worse, the more I deliberated, the more elusive the subject of my invited address became. Of course, I had several interesting papers underway: (1) “Data is [G]od,” which is now published in Teaching and Teacher Education, (2) “The Gordian Knot of international teacher education,” which is a manuscript in preparation with four colleagues (two who are Faculty C. J. Craig (B ) Department of Teaching, Learning and Culture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA e-mail: cheryljcraig@tamu.edu © The Author(s) 2020 C. J. Craig et al. (eds.), Cross-Disciplinary, Cross-Institutional Collaboration in Teacher Education, Palgrave Studies on Leadership and Learning in Teacher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56674-6_19 351