Description - Decoding the Disciplines: Helping Students Learn Disciplinary Ways of Thinking by David Pace
The Indiana University Faculty Learning Community realized that the
mental operations required of undergraduates differ enormously from
discipline to discipline and that these ways of thinking are rarely
presented to students explicitly. IUFLC Fellows from fields as
diverse as creative writing, marketing, and genetics, and, as
knowledgeable about their research areas as few people in the
world, began to explore how students learn this content. The
?Decoding the Disciplines? model takes advantage of the differences
in thinking among academic fields in order to decode each
individual discipline.
Following the model, faculty answered a series of questions to
define crucial bottlenecks to learning, dissected the ways an
expert deals with the issues that causes the bottleneck, and
invented ways to model this thinking for students. After giving
students an opportunity to practice these skills and receive
feedback, each professor assessed student performance on these
basic operations.
Their chapters in this issue of NDTL show faculty in the
disciplines as they delved deeply into the specifics of thinking
and learning in their disciplines and become involved in the
scholarship of teaching and learning. It presents principles for
facilitating assessments and a Faculty Learning Community.
Institutions are invited to consider the Decoding the Disciplines
model as a tool for structuring faculty inquiry into the thinking
and learning in their disciplines.
This is the 98th issue of the Jossey-Bass quarterly higher
education report New Directions for Teaching and
Learning.
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