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University teaching and learning take place within ever more specialized disciplinary settings, each characterized by its unique traditions, concepts, practices and procedures. It is now widely recognized that support for teaching and learning needs to take this discipline-specificity into account. However, in a world characterized by rapid change, complexity and uncertainty, problems do not present themselves as distinct subjects but increasingly within trans-disciplinary contexts calling for graduate outcomes that go beyond specialized knowledge and skills. This ground-breaking book highlights the important interplay between context-specific and context-transcendent aspects of teaching, learning and assessment. It explores critical questions, such as: What are the 'ways of thinking and practicing' characteristic of particular disciplines? How can students be supported in becoming participants of particular disciplinary discourse communities? Can the diversity in teaching, learning and assessment practices that we observe across departments be attributed exclusively to disciplinary structure? To what extent do the disciplines prepare students for the complexities and uncertainties that characterize their later professional, civic and personal lives? Contents: Part I. Introduction: Setting the context (1. Kreber, Carolin: Supporting Student Learning in the Context of Diversity, Complexity and Uncertainty. - 2. Kreber, Carolin: The Modern Research University and its Disciplines: The Interplay between Contextual and Context-transcendent Influences on Teaching). - Part II. Disciplines and their epistemological structure (3. Donald, Janet Gail: The Commons: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Encounters. - 4. Poole, Gary: Academic Disciplines: Homes or Barricades? - 5. Matthew, Robert G. S./Pritchard, Jane: Hard and Soft - A Useful Way of Thinking about Disciplines? Reflections from Engineering Education on Disciplinary Identities). - Part III. Ways of thinking and practicing (6. Hounsell, Dai/Anderson, Charles: Ways of Thinking and Practicing in Biology and History: Disciplinary Aspects of Teaching and Learning Environments. - 7. Reimann, Nicola: Exploring Disciplinarity in Academic Development: Do "Ways of Thinking and Practicing" Help Higher Education Practitioners to Think about Learning and Teaching? - 8. Pace, David: Opening History's "Black Boxes": Decoding the Disciplinary Unconscious of Historians). - Part IV. Exploring disciplinary ...
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