Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning
Professional Literature that Makes a Difference
1st Edition
Published on 13. May 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
270 pages
978-1-119-13205-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this book, Maryellen Weimer provides an essential resource for anyone who is engaged in efforts to improve teaching in higher education. This comprehensive book draws on a wide array of sources to help practitioners build on the foundation laid by existing scholarly work on teaching and learning. Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning reviews previously published work on teaching and learning to better guide those engaged in pedagogical scholarship and to help develop a literature that meets the needs of faculty.
Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning includes an analysis of the practitioner literature on teaching and learning in two main categories-the wisdom of scholarship and research scholarship. The first category uses the lens of experience to analyze instructional issues, and the second category employs more objective frames to assess instructional issues. The book explores four experiential approaches to teaching and learning (personal accounts of change, recommended-practices reports, recommended-content reports, and personal narratives and includes an analysis of the three most common research methods (quantitative investigation, qualitative studies, and descriptive research). Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning also includes information about other methods in addition to the main approaches.
Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning includes an analysis of the practitioner literature on teaching and learning in two main categories-the wisdom of scholarship and research scholarship. The first category uses the lens of experience to analyze instructional issues, and the second category employs more objective frames to assess instructional issues. The book explores four experiential approaches to teaching and learning (personal accounts of change, recommended-practices reports, recommended-content reports, and personal narratives and includes an analysis of the three most common research methods (quantitative investigation, qualitative studies, and descriptive research). Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning also includes information about other methods in addition to the main approaches.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
396 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-119-13205-9 (9781119132059)
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Maryellen Weimer
Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning in College
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03/2006
Jossey-Bass
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Person
Maryellen Weimer is an Associate Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Berks Lehigh Valley College of Penn State and served as one of the college's academic officers on an interim appointment from 1998?to 2000. Previously she was an Associate Director of the National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning and Assessment, a five-year, $5.9 million, U. S. Department of Education research and development center. The Center was part of the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Penn State University where Dr. Weimer was a senior research associate before returning to the teaching faculty in 1994.
Dr. Weimer has served on the editorial boards of four journals, and has consulted with over 175 colleges and universities on instructional issues. Since 1990, Dr. Weimer has delivered keynotes at eight national meetings and seven regional conferences.?For more than a decade?she has edited the Teaching Professor, a monthly newsletter on college teaching with 14,000 subscribers. She has edited or authored nine books, including the recent Jossey-Bass title, Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice.
Dr. Weimer has served on the editorial boards of four journals, and has consulted with over 175 colleges and universities on instructional issues. Since 1990, Dr. Weimer has delivered keynotes at eight national meetings and seven regional conferences.?For more than a decade?she has edited the Teaching Professor, a monthly newsletter on college teaching with 14,000 subscribers. She has edited or authored nine books, including the recent Jossey-Bass title, Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice.
Content
Preface ix
The Author xxi
1. Why and How to Look 1
2. What to Look At 19
3. Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning: An Overview 39
4. The Lens of Experience: Wisdom of Practice 53
5. The Lens of Objectivity: Research Scholarship 91
6. Promising Possibilities 123
7. Looking Ahead: Learning from What's Behind 141
8. From Looking to Doing: Advice for Faculty 169
9. From Looking to Doing: Advice for Academic Leaders 193
Appendixes
A. Discipline-Based Pedagogical Periodicals 211
B. Cross-Disciplinary and Topical Pedagogical Periodicals 215
References 217
Name Index 231
Subject Index 237
The Author xxi
1. Why and How to Look 1
2. What to Look At 19
3. Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning: An Overview 39
4. The Lens of Experience: Wisdom of Practice 53
5. The Lens of Objectivity: Research Scholarship 91
6. Promising Possibilities 123
7. Looking Ahead: Learning from What's Behind 141
8. From Looking to Doing: Advice for Faculty 169
9. From Looking to Doing: Advice for Academic Leaders 193
Appendixes
A. Discipline-Based Pedagogical Periodicals 211
B. Cross-Disciplinary and Topical Pedagogical Periodicals 215
References 217
Name Index 231
Subject Index 237