Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind

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

• ISBN13: 9781579223076
• ISBN10: 1579223079
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-31
• Publisher: Stylus Pub Llc

Summary

How do individual disciplines foster deep learning, and get students to think like disciplinary experts? With contributions from the sciences, humanities, and the arts, this book critically explores how to best foster student learning within and across the disciplines.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
From Generic to Signature Pedagogies: Teaching Disciplinary Understandings	p. 1
Humanities
From Learning History to Doing History: Beyond the Coverage Model	p. 19
Unpacking a Signature Pedagogy in Literary Studies	p. 36
Fine Arts
Vision and Re-Vision in Creative Writing Pedagogy	p. 59
Theory and Practice: Signature Pedagogies in Music Theory and Performance	p. 81
Critique as Signature Pedagogy in the Arts	p. 99
Social Sciences
Moving Toward a Signature Pedagogy in Geography: A Close Reading of the Landscape	p. 121
Teaching and Learning in the "Interdisciplinary Discipline" of Human Development	p. 139
Developing Habits of the Mind, Hand, and Heart in Psychology undergraduates	p. 161
Signature Pedagogy and the Sociological Imagination: A Critical Assessment	p. 183
Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Signature Pedagogy in Agriculture: Animal and Dairy Sciences	p. 207
The Evolution of Scientific Teaching within the Biological Sciences	p. 224
Signature Pedagogies and SoTL Practices in Computer Science	p. 244
Mathematical Reasoning: Challenging Students' Beliefs about Mathematics	p. 260
Signature Pedagogies in Introductory Physics	p. 280
About the Authors	p. 295
Index	p. 303
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