Exploring More Signature Pedagogies

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 analysing 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 Pedagogies covers 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.

"Books that tell us what the best teachers do and how learning works are valuable. But if disciplinary fields matter for teaching and learning, and surely they do, then knowing the seven (or whatever) habits of highly effective teachers is not going to be enough to make one a first-rate teacher of philosophy, chemistry, women's studies, or anything else. For that, it is immensely helpful to know the state of the art of effective teaching in one's own field. No one is doing more to advance our knowledge of how the disciplines construct teaching and learning than the teacher/scholars who have collaborated on this and a predecessor volume examining disciplinary habits of head, hand, and heart in the classroom. Here are honest, fresh assessments of the state of the art of teaching across a wide variety of fields, with thoughtful attention to unsettled questions, international differences, and the changing nature of the disciplines in recent years."--Lendol Calder, Professor of History (9/1/2011 12:00:00 AM), "This second volume of Exploring Signature Pedagogies significantly advances what we know about the subject by expanding the number of disciplines now in the discussion. More professions, interdisciplinary fields, and disciplines are included. Perhaps more importantly, however, each author carefully describes and evaluates the current connections (and disconnections) between what a field or discipline values and how it instills (or not) those values in its future practitioners through the teaching and learning experiences it designs. In so doing, the authors make many useful distinctions and observations that expand our thinking about individual fields or disciplines, the concept of a signature pedagogy itself, and the role this concept can play in helping us frame an agenda for research and development in teaching and learning."--Anthony A. Ciccone, from the Foreword (1/1/2011 12:00:00 AM), "Volume two of Exploring Signature Pedagogies offers 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, "Essays exploring the signature pedagogy in a discipline provide a systematic account of the relation among evidence, methodology and the teaching of the field. This second volume of essays greatly expands the menu of fields of study presented in this engaging and generative way. While there is enormous benefit to us all from reading deeply in educational research literature, most faculty members find it more compelling to consider powerful ideas and tools in education when they are situated within familiar topics, challenges, and intellectual goals. Progressive teaching now takes an inductive approach, starting from students' existing experience, interests, and understanding and moving toward general understanding of phenomena and conceptual synthesis of intellectual work. In the same way, this volume continues the effective articulation of characteristic teaching within specific fields of study, making it more likely that professors from many fields will meaningfully engage the literature of education research in general."--Dan Bernstein, Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, and Professor of Psychology (9/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)

Nancy L. Chick is director of the Endeavor Foundation Center for Faculty Development at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. She is the founding coeditor of Teaching and Learning Inquiry, the journal of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL); coeditor of Exploring Signature Pedagogies and Exploring More Signature Pedagogies, and was cochair of the 2017 ISSOTL conference.Visit Nancy's personal blog at https://nancychick.wordpress.com. Aeron Haynie is Chair of English and Associate Professor of English and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. A winner of numerous teaching awards, Haynie has published articles on teaching in Radical Teacher, Teaching Forum, Pedagogy (with Nancy Chick and Holly Hassel, forthcoming), Professional Realities (edited by Sean P. Murphy, MLA Press, 2008), and Mama PhD (Rutgers, 2008). Regan A. R. Gurung is Chair of the Human Development Department and Professor of Human Development and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and presentations, of a health psychology textbook (Wadsworth, 2006) that was the first book to use a completely cultural approach, a co-author on a book on pedagogical research, and co-editor of two other books, one on sociocultural issues in mental health (Blackwell-Wiley, 2009). He is a member of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Diversity Task Force, and is on the University of Wisconsin System Institute of Race and Ethnicity Advisory Committee. Anthony A. Ciccone