Full Description
The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) began primarily as a discipline-based movement, committed to exploring the signature pedagogical and learning styles of each discipline within higher education, with little exchange across disciplines. As the field has developed, new questions have arisen concerning cross-disciplinary comparison and learning in multidisciplinary settings This volume by a stellar group of experts provides a state-of-the-field review of recent SoTL scholarship within a range of disciplines and offers a stimulating discussion of critical issues related to interdisciplinarity in teaching, learning, and SoTL research.
Contents
Foreword Mary HuberIntroduction to SoTL in and across the Disciplines Kathleen McKinney Part I. SoTL In the Disciplines1. Difference, Privilege, and Power in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Value of Humanities SoTL Nancy L. Chick 2. Contributions from Psychology: Heuristics for Interdisciplinary Advancement of SoTL Regan A. R. Gurung and Beth M. Schwartz3. SoTL and Interdisciplinary Encounters in the Study of Students' Understanding of Mathematical Proof Curtis Bennett and Jacqueline Dewar4. Plowing through Bottlenecks in Political Science: Experts and Novices at Work Jeffrey L. Bernstein 5. The History Learning Project "Decodes" a Discipline: The Union of Teaching and Epistemology Leah Shopkow, Arlene Diaz, Joan Middenorf, and David Pace6. Assessing Strategies for Teaching Key Sociological Understandings Caroline Hodges Persell and Antonio E. MateiroPart II. SoTL Across the Disciplines7. Square One: What is Research? Gary Poole8. Fallacies of SoTL: Rethinking How We Conduct Our Research Liz Grauerholz and Eric Main9. Exploring Student Learning in Unfamiliar Territory: A Humanist and a Scientist Compare Notes David A. Reichard and Kathy Takayama10. Talking Across the Disciplines: Building Communicative Competence in a Multidisciplinary Graduate-Student Seminar on Inquiry in Teaching and Learning Jennifer Meta Robinson, Melissa Gresalfi, Tyler Booth Christensen, April K. Sievert, Katherine Dowell Kearns, and Miriam E. Zolan11. Getting at the Big Picture through SoTL Lauren Scharff12. Growing Our Own Understanding of Teaching and Learning: Planting the Seeds and Reaping the Harvest Cheryl Albers 13. Navigating Interdisciplinary Rip Tides on the Way to the Scholarship of Integrative Learning Carmen Werder ContributorsIndex
