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Annual Report Of Research And Creative Productions By Faculty And Staff From January To December, 2000., Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs. Morehead State University. Jan 2000

Annual Report Of Research And Creative Productions By Faculty And Staff From January To December, 2000., Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs. Morehead State University.

Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Reports and Publications

Annual Report Of Research and Creative Productions by Faculty and Staff from January to December, 2000.


The Influence Of Disciplinary Differences On Consultations With Faculty, Virginia Lee Jan 2000

The Influence Of Disciplinary Differences On Consultations With Faculty, Virginia Lee

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

In recent years researchers have begun to investigate the nature of disciplinary differences in higher education and their implications for teaching and learning. While researchers have studied several aspects of disciplinary differences, they have given comparatively little attention to the significance of these differences for faculty development. After reviewing selective, representative studies from the literature on disciplinary differences, this paper develops a general framework for determining how the characteristics of a discipline influence the dynamics of the consulting relationship using the example of the hard sciences. It explores what kinds of discipline-specific knowledge will be important for consultants and under …