Full Description
Decoding the Disciplines, a program designed to help instructors increase learning in their courses, provides a framework for identifying and remedying course elements that are most problematic for students. Decoding is a seven-step process in which instructors:1. identify a bottleneck of learning, 2. make explicit the mental operations required to overcome the obstacle, 3. model the required steps for students,4. give them practice at these skills, 5. deal with emotional bottlenecks that interfere with learning, 6. assess the success of their efforts, and7. share the results. Providing detailed information so that readers may develop effective models of practice, this volume provides examples and evidence of the ways the framework has been applied across disciplines and used to inform teaching, curriculum, and pedagogical research initiatives. It outlines how various communities of practice got started, describes the analyses of three different collections of Decoding interviews, extends the Decoding framework using different theoretical lenses, and connects the learning to practical applications for teachers and scholars in higher education.This is the 150th volume of this Jossey-Bass higher education series. It offers a comprehensive range of ideas and techniques for improving college teaching based on the experience of seasoned instructors and the latest findings of educational and psychological researchers.
Contents
EDITORS' NOTES 7Janice Miller-Young, Jennifer Boman EditorsFOREWORD 9David Pace, Joan MiddendorfSection One: Introduction to Decoding Across the Disciplines1. Overview of Decoding across the Disciplines 13Jennifer Boman, Genevieve Currie, Ron MacDonald, Janice Miller-Young, Michelle Yeo, Stephanie Zettel2. Uncovering Ways of Thinking, Practicing, and Being through Decoding across Disciplines 19Janice Miller-Young, Jennifer BomanSection Two: Theoretical Lenses3. Conscious Connections: Phenomenology and Decoding the Disciplines 37Genevieve Currie4. Decoding the Disciplines as a Hermeneutic Practice 49Michelle Yeo5. Intuitions and Instincts: Considerations for Decoding Disciplinary Identities 63Ron MacDonaldSection Three: Decoding in Communities of Practice6. Building Bridges from the Decoding Interview to Teaching Practice 75Jennifer Pettit, Melanie Rathburn, Victoria Calvert, Roberta Lexier, Margot Underwood, Judy Gleeson, Yasmin Dean7. Impact of Decoding Work within a Professional Program 87Michelle Yeo, Mark Lafave, Khatija Westbrook, Jenelle McAllister, Dennis Valdez, Breda EubankSection Four: Synthesis8. Learning from Decoding across Disciplines and within Communities of Practice 97Janice Miller-Young, Jennifer BomanINDEX 103
