NEW BOOK -- Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching andLearni

Dear SL colleagues,

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recently
collaborated with the American Association for Higher Education to
publish Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
Exploring Common Ground.

The book features 10 sets of disciplinary scholars responding to an
orienting essay that raises questions about the history of discourse
about teaching and learning in the disciplines, the ways in which
disciplinary "styles" of discourse influence inquiry into teaching and
learning, and the nature and roles of interdisciplinary exchange.

Carnegie Senior Scholar Mary Taylor Huber and Sherwyn Morreale with the
National Communication Association edited the volume.

Carnegie President Lee S Shulman wrote the foreword. Disciplines
represented in the book are chemistry, communication studies,
engineering, English studies, history, interdisciplinary studies,
management sciences, mathematics, psychology, and sociology.

In presenting their own field's "sounds and silences" on the topic of
teaching and learning, the authors hope to contribute to a common
language for trading ideas, enlarging the pedagogical imagination, and
strengthening scholarly work.

The book looks at how the attention to teaching and learning has
intensified over the past 10 to 20 years in quantity, quality and
participation. The authors suggest that more teaching faculty are
bringing innovations into the classroom, and many are beginning to
inquire systematically into its effect on their students' learning.

There is evidence of this increased awareness and activity in the number
of journals and scholarly society conference sessions about examined
teaching, and a shift from the sharing of teaching tips and anecdotes to
scholarly research on teaching and learning.

The book is available through the American Association for Higher
Education, One Dupont Circle, Suite 360, Washington, DC 20036. Phone:
202/293-6440, Fax: 202/293-0073, or website: http://www.aahe.org/pubs/

The Introduction, written by Huber and Morreale, and Table of Contents
are available online at:
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/eLibrary/situating.htm

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