The university and its disciplines [electronic resource] : teaching and learning within and beyond disciplinary boundaries / edited by Carolin Kreber.

Title from t.p. in ebrary Reader (viewed Jan. 9, 2009).

Published on: ebrary. Ebrary opening screen lists publ. date as 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Supporting student learning in the context of diversity, complexity and uncertainty / Carolin Kreber -- The modern research university and its disciplines : the interplay between contextual and context-transcendent influences on teaching / Carolin Kreber -- The commons : disciplinary and interdisciplinary encounters / Janet Gail Donald -- Academic disciplines : homes or barricades? / Gary Poole -- Hard and soft : a useful way of thinking about disciplines? Reflections from engineering education on disciplinary identities / Robert G.S. Matthew and Jane Pritchard -- Ways of thinking and practicing in biology and history : disciplinary aspects of teaching and learning environments / Dai Hounsell and Charles Anderson -- Exploring disciplinarity in academic development : do'ways of thinking and practicing' help faculty to think about learning and teaching? / Nicola Reimann -- Opening history's'black boxes' : decoding the disciplinary unconscious of historians / David Pace -- Guiding students into a discipline : the significance of the teacher / Andy Northedge and Jan McArthur -- Diverse student voices within disciplinary discourses / Jan McArthur -- Guiding students into a discipline : the significance of the student's view / Lewis Elton -- Educating students for self-authorship : learning partnerships to achieve complex outcomes / Marcia B. Baxter Magolda -- Supporting student development in and beyond the disciplines : the role of the curriculum / Alan Jenkins -- Constraints to implementing learning partnership models and self-authorship in the arts and humanities / Vicky Gunn -- Beyond epistemological essentialism : academic tribes in the twenty-first century / Paul Trowler -- Exploring teaching and learning regimes in higher education settings / Joëlle Fanghanel -- Teaching and learning regimes from within : significant networks as a locus for the social construction of teaching and learning / Torgny Roxå and Katarina Mårtensson -- Assessment for career and citizenship / Mantz Yorke -- Teaching within and beyond the disciplines : the challenge for faculty / Velda McCune.