Exploring More Signature Pedagogies

by Chick, Nancy L.; Haynie, Aeron; Gurung, Regan A. R.; Ciccone, Anthony A.

• ISBN13: 9781579224752
• ISBN10: 157922475X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-31
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

What is distinctive about the ways specific disciplines are traditionally taught, and what kinds of learning do they promote? Do they inspire the habits of the discipline itself, or do they inadvertently contradict or ignore those disciplines? By analyzing assumptions about often unexamined teaching practices, their history, and relevance in contemporary learning contexts, this book offers teachers a fresh way to both think about their impact on students and explore more effective ways to engage students in authentic habits and practices. This companion volume to Exploring Signature Pedagogiescovers disciplines not addressed in the earlier volume and further expands the scope of inquiry by interrogating the teaching methods in interdisciplinary fields and a number of professions, critically returning to Lee S. Shulman's origins of the concept of signature pedagogies. This volume also differs from the first by including authors from across the United States, as well as Ireland and Australia. The first section examines the signature pedagogies in the humanities and fine arts fields of philosophy, foreign language instruction, communication, art and design, and arts entrepreneurship. The second section describes signature pedagogies in the social and natural sciences: political science, economics, and chemistry. Section three highlights the interdisciplinary fields of Ignatian pedagogy, women's studies, and disability studies; and the book concludes with four chapters on professional pedagogies nursing, occupational therapy, social work, and teacher education that illustrate how these pedagogies change as the social context changes, as their knowledge base expands, or as online delivery of instruction increases. Praise for the companion volume: Volume two of Exploring Signature Pedagogiesoffers just the right complement to volume one with evidence-informed chapters on signature pedagogies in a new and diverse set of disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, including those underrepresented in scholarship of teaching and learning work. The chapters demonstrate the fluidity and complexity of habits of the mind and signature pedagogies in both theory and practice, and offer brief critical reflections on the real and ideal states of scholarship of teaching and learning in the fields represented. Thus, readers will experience the joy and challenge, as well as reap the benefits, of learning about fields beyond their own. The volume will encourage readers to go beyond the false dichotomy of a focus on generic teaching best practices vs. disciplinary specific deep knowledge for teaching. Kathleen McKinney, Cross Endowed Chair in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Illinois State University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Signature Pedagogies in the Liberal Arts and Beyond
Humanities and Fine Arts
The Socratic Method	p. 15
Teaching and Writing About Philosophy's Signature Pedagogy
Traditions and Transformations	p. 27
Signature Pedagogies in the Language Curriculum
Countersignatures in Communication Pedagogy	p. 42
Signature Pedagogies in Art and Design
The Enterprising Artist and the Arts Entrepreneur	p. 68
Emergent Pedagogies for New Disciplinary Habits of Mind
Social and Natural Sciences
Signature Pedagogies in Political Science	p. 85
Teaching Students How Political Actors Behave
Is There a Signature Pedagogy in Economics?	p. 97
Signature Pedagogies in Chemistry	p. 112
Interdisciplinary Fields and Programs
Reflection in Action	p. 129
A Signature Ignatian Pedagogy for the 21st Century
A Signature Feminist Pedagogy	p. 143
Connection and Transformation in Women's Studies
Mapping an Emerging Signature Pedagogy for Disability Studies	p. 156
Professions
Competence and Care	p. 171
Signature Pedagogies in Nursing Education
Relational Learning and Active Engagement in Occupational Therapy Professional Education	p. 188
Toward a Comprehensive Signature Pedagogy in Social Work Education	p. 203
Toward a Signature Pedagogy in Teacher Education	p. 217
About the Authors	p. 231
Index	p. 243
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