Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning: Professional Literature that Makes a Difference - Softcover

Weimer, Maryellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119132053 ISBN 13: 9781119132059

Verlag: Jossey-Bass, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

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.

 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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"In her characteristically research-based, direct and practical style, Maryellen Weimer provides a much-needed guide, critique and roadmap of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Weimer's new book will be of use to teachers, researchers, and administrators alike, and nicely complements her Learner-Centered Teaching and Classroom Research by Cross and Steadman." --Thomas A. Angelo, Director, University Teaching Development Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

"Yet again, Maryellen Weimer has made a perfectly timed contribution to the pursuit of excellence in teaching and learning. Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning does, indeed, shed clarifying light on the exciting new emphasis on scholarly approaches to teaching. In her distinctively conversational and clear style, Dr. Weimer maps out the nature of pedagogical literature--how to read it and how to contribute to it. As always, Maryellen grounds her work in a wealth of experience that she so skillfully translates into practical suggestions for constructive work. This book is the perfect next step in the journey to understand the benefits of scholarly teaching." --Gary Poole, Ph.D., Director, Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth Founding Director, Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning University of British Columbia

"The revolution called the 'scholarship of teaching' was started by Boyer, but this book puts his ideas and those of many others on the tarmac of reality. It forcefully and convincingly answers the question, 'what's next?' I think it has the potential for laying the foundation for a new discipline of practice comparable to what has been achieved in other disciplines." --Charles Walker, Professor of Psychology, St. Bonaventure University, Olean, NY

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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 practice 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.

Weimer looks ahead and conjectures on a better future for both those who do and those who use scholarship on teaching and learning. She gives advice to faculty who have never done pedagogical scholarship and suggestions for those who wish to improve their work. She also includes suggestions for academic leaders for getting faculty connected to the literature and ways to be supportive to faculty interested in doing pedagogical scholarship.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1119132053
• ISBN 13: 9781119132059
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270
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