Disciplines as frameworks for student learning
Subtitle: teaching the practice of the disciplines
By: edited by Tim Riordan and James Roth
Contributors: Riordan, Tim, 1948-; Roth, James Leonard
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Stylus; Stylus Pub.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Sterling, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: College teaching -- United States; Interdisciplinary approach in education -- United States; Universities and colleges -- Curricula -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Tim Riordan; title: Common ground : how history professors and undergraduate students learn through history / James Roth; title: Learning to think mathematically / Susan Pustejovsky; title: Teaching students to practice philosophy / Donna Engelmann; title: Making economics matter to students / Zohreh Emami; title: Reading and responding to literature : developing critical perspectives / Lucy Cromwell; title: Articulating the cognitive processes at the heart of chemistry / Ann van Heerden; title: Because Hester Prynne was an existentialist, or why using disciplines as frameworks for learning clarifies life / Rebecca Valentine