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OverviewUniversity teaching and learning take place within ever more specialized disciplinary settings, each characterized by its unique traditions, concepts, practices and procedures. It is now widely recognized that support for teaching and learning needs to take this discipline-specificity into account. However, in a world characterized by rapid change, complexity and uncertainty, problems do not present themselves as distinct subjects but increasingly within trans-disciplinary contexts calling for graduate outcomes that go beyond specialized knowledge and skills. This ground-breaking book highlights the important interplay between context-specific and context-transcendent aspects of teaching, learning and assessment. It explores critical questions, such as: What are the ‘ways of thinking and practicing’ characteristic of particular disciplines? How can students be supported in becoming participants of particular disciplinary discourse communities? Can the diversity in teaching, learning and assessment practices that we observe across departments be attributed exclusively to disciplinary structure? To what extent do the disciplines prepare students for the complexities and uncertainties that characterize their later professional, civic and personal lives? Written for university teachers, educational developers as well as new and experienced researchers of Higher Education, this highly-anticipated first edition offers innovative perspectives from leading Canadian, US and UK scholars on how academic learning within particular disciplines can help students acquire the skills, abilities and dispositions they need to succeed academically and also post graduation. Carolin Kreber is Professor of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and the Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment at the University of Edinburgh Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carolin Kreber (University of Edinburgh, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.500kg ISBN: 9780415965217ISBN 10: 0415965217 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 17 September 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews<p> Professor Kreber draws on an impressive array of scholars and practitioners from the UK, Europe, the US and Canada to explore the central question: are academic disciplines up to the task of preparing undergraduates for life, work and civic engagement in today's complex, uncertain world? This wide-ranging and challenging concern is explored from a number of perspectives which go far beyond the oft-rehearsed notions of graduate attributes. --Fran Beaton, ESCalate, February 11, 2009<p>. ..Professionals who have the responsibility to ponder the nature of higher education in the twenty-first century will find a provocative and rewarding basis for their work here. --Max Oromaner, Education Review (November 2009)<p> Professor Kreber draws on an impressive array of scholars and practitioners from the UK, Europe, the US and Canada to explore the central question: are academic disciplines up to the task of preparing undergraduates for life, work and civic engagement in today's complex, uncertain world? This wide-ranging and challenging concern is explored from a number of perspectives which go far beyond the oft-rehearsed notions of graduate attributes. --Fran Beaton, ESCalate, February 11, 2009 ...Professionals who have the responsibility to ponder the nature of higher education in the twenty-first century will find a provocative and rewarding basis for their work here. --Max Oromaner, Education Review (November 2009) This book is an instructive treasure chest and it can, indeed, help us open up our sense of who we are and who our students might become. Thinking through these issues forces us to think deeply and theoretically about our field in new ways. --Teaching Theology and Religion Professor Kreber draws on an impressive array of scholars and practitioners from the UK, Europe, the US and Canada to explore the central question: are academic disciplines up to the task of preparing undergraduates for life, work and civic engagement in today's complex, uncertain world? This wide-ranging and challenging concern is explored from a number of perspectives which go far beyond the oft-rehearsed notions of graduate attributes. --Fran Beaton, ESCalate, February 11, 2009 ...Professionals who have the responsibility to ponder the nature of higher education in the twenty-first century will find a provocative and rewarding basis for their work here. --Max Oromaner, Education Review (November 2009) This book is an instructive treasure chest and it can, indeed, help us open up our sense of who we are and who our students might become. Thinking through these issues forces us to think deeply and theoretically about our field in new ways. --Teaching Theology and Religion Author InformationCarolin Kreber, Teaching and Learning within and beyond disciplinary boundaries. University of Edinburgh, U.K. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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