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Disciplines as frameworks for student learning : teaching the practice of the disciplines

Title

Disciplines as frameworks for student learning : teaching the practice of the disciplines / edited by Tim Riordan and James Roth.

Format

Book

Edition

1st ed.

Published

Sterling, Va. : Stylus, 2005.

Description

xix, 138 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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Other contributors

Riordan, Tim, 1948- Roth, James Leonard.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Tim Riordan
Common ground : how history professors and undergraduate students learn through history / James Roth
Learning to think mathematically / Susan Pustejovsky
Teaching students to practice philosophy / Donna Engelmann
Making economics matter to students / Zohreh Emami
Reading and responding to literature : developing critical perspectives / Lucy Cromwell
Articulating the cognitive processes at the heart of chemistry / Ann van Heerden
Because Hester Prynne was an existentialist, or why using disciplines as frameworks for learning clarifies life / Rebecca Valentine.

Subject headings

College teaching--United States. Interdisciplinary approach in education--United States. Universities and colleges--Curricula--United States.

ISBN

157922122X (cloth : alk. paper) 1579221238 (pbk. : alk. paper)