Disciplines as Frameworks for Student Learning - Hardcover

"Faculty members today are being urged to think more seriously about their role as professional educators as well as their role as professional experts in a particular discipline. For those who are serious about their role as educators, these essays explore the commonalities and differences of teaching various disciplines in a way that greatly enhances everyone's ability to pursue our ultimate common goal, that of creating significant learning experiences for students."-Dee Fink, President of the POD Network in Higher Education and author of Creating Significant Learning Experiences. "This book is extremely important. Extending higher education's current focus on how students learn, and the related issues of learning styles, pedagogical techniques and measurement of outcomes, this book challenges deeper assumptions by redefining the role of disciplines as frameworks for learning. The authors of this book believe that new learners in the persons of their students should influence the way in which disciplines are enacted. Part of the intellectual challenge of a discipline is studying its epistemology, including who gets to make meaning in the field. This position about intellectual work in the discipline enables us to move beyond tired, repetitive contentions about research as the core of a discipline. These authors demonstrate that the core of a discipline is how meaning is made in it by experts and by novices.

Explores the commonalties and differences of teaching various disciplines in a way that greatly enhances everyone's ability to pursue our ultimate common goal of creating significant learning experiences for students. -- Dee Fink, President of the POD Network