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MacDonald, Ron – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
Deciphering teachers' paths to their disciplinary professional identities can make important elements of their tacit knowledge explicit and available to their students.
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Teacher Characteristics, Intellectual Disciplines, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Pettit, Jennifer; Rathburn, Melanie; Calvert, Victoria; Lexier, Roberta; Underwood, Margot; Gleeson, Judy; Dean, Yasmin – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
This chapter describes a multidisciplinary faculty self-study about reciprocity in service-learning. The study began with each coauthor participating in a Decoding interview. We describe how Decoding combined with collaborative self-study had a positive impact on our teaching practice.
Descriptors: Interviews, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Boman, Jennifer; Currie, Genevieve; MacDonald, Ron; Miller-Young, Janice; Yeo, Michelle; Zettel, Stephanie – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
In this chapter we describe the Decoding the Disciplines Faculty Learning Community at Mount Royal University and how Decoding has been used in new and multidisciplinary ways in the various teaching, curriculum, and research projects that are presented in detail in subsequent chapters.
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teaching Methods
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Miller-Young, Janice; Boman, Jennifer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
This chapter presents the bottlenecks identified by seven faculty members from diverse disciplines and an inductive content analysis of their Decoding interviews. Representative quotations illustrate themes in the interviews and we consider the implications for both faculty development and pedagogical research.
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Barriers, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intellectual Disciplines
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Currie, Genevieve – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
This chapter describes how seven disciplinary bottlenecks from four diverse disciplines were analyzed using a phenomenological perspective and includes a discussion of embodied knowing and implications for educators.
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Intellectual Disciplines, Barriers, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Yeo, Michelle; Lafave, Mark; Westbrook, Khatija; McAllister, Jenelle; Valdez, Dennis; Eubank, Breda – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
This chapter demonstrates how Decoding work can be used productively within a curriculum change process to help make design decisions based on a more nuanced understanding of student learning and the relationship of a professional program to the field.
Descriptors: Professional Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Educational Change
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Miller-Young, Janice; Boman, Jennifer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
This final chapter synthesizes the findings and implications derived from applying the Decoding the Disciplines model across disciplines and within communities of practice. We make practical suggestions for teachers and researchers who wish to apply and extend this work.
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Interdisciplinary Approach, Models, Educational Practices
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Miller-Young, Janice; Yeo, Michelle; Manarin, Karen; Carey, Miriam; Zimmer, Jim – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2016
This chapter briefly describes the SoTL research development program and context at Mount Royal University, reports initial results from a study of the program's impact on participants' teaching and scholarly activities, and situates the findings regarding individual impact, department-level impact, institution-level impact, and discipline-level…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Higher Education