Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm : Seven Steps to Increased Student Learning

David Pace

ISBN 10: 0253024536 / ISBN 13: 9780253024534

Published by Indiana University Press Mär 2017, 2017

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Neuware - Teaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging. How can instructors reach out to their students and fully engage them in the conversation Applicable to multiple disciplines, the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm offers a radically new model for helping students respond to the challenges of college and provides a framework for understanding why students find academic life so arduous. Teachers can help their pupils overcome obstacles by identifying bottlenecks to learning and systematically exploring the steps needed to overcome these obstacles. Often, experts find it difficult to define the mental operations necessary to master their discipline because they have become so automatic that they are invisible. However, once these mental operations have been made explicit, the teacher can model them for students, create opportunities for practice and feedback, manage additional emotional obstacles, assess results, and share what has been learned with others.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm : Seven Steps to Increased Student Learning
• Publisher: Indiana University Press Mär 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253024536
• ISBN 13: 9780253024534
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 157H x 14D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 157 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 419 grams

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Synopsis

Teaching and learning in a college setting has never been more challenging. How can instructors reach out to their students and fully engage them in the conversation? Applicable to multiple disciplines, the Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm offers a radically new model for helping students respond to the challenges of college and provides a framework for understanding why students find academic life so arduous. Teachers can help their pupils overcome obstacles by identifying bottlenecks to learning and systematically exploring the steps needed to overcome these obstacles. Often, experts find it difficult to define the mental operations necessary to master their discipline because they have become so automatic that they are invisible. However, once these mental operations have been made explicit, the teacher can model them for students, create opportunities for practice and feedback, manage additional emotional obstacles, assess results, and share what has been learned with others.

About the Author

David Pace is Emeritus Professor in the History Department of Indiana University.