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Contributor(s): Genevieve Currie
Date issued: 2017
Description: This chapter describes how seven disciplinary bottlenecks from four diverse disciplines were analyzed using a phenomenological perspective and includes a discussion of embodied knowing and implications for educators.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Jennifer Pettit; Melanie Rathburn; Victoria Calvert; Roberta Lexier; Margot Underwood; Judy Gleeson; Yasmin Dean
Date issued: 2017
Description: This chapter describes a multidisciplinary faculty self-study about reciprocity in service-learning. The study began with each co-author participating in a Decoding interview. We describe how Decoding combined with collaborative self-study had a positive impact on our teaching practice.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young; Jennifer Boman
Date issued: 2017
Description: This chapter presents the bottlenecks identified by seven faculty members from diverse disciplines, and an inductive content analysis of their Decoding interviews. Representative quotations illustrate themes in the interviews and we consider the implications for both faculty development and pedagogical research.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Janice Miller-Young; Jennifer Boman
Date issued: 2017
Description: This final chapter synthesizes the findings and implications derived from applying the Decoding the Disciplines model across disciplines and within communities of practice. We make practical suggestions for teachers and researchers who wish to apply and extend this work.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Ron MacDonald
Date issued: 2017
Description: Deciphering teachers’ paths to their disciplinary professional identities can make important elements of their tacit knowledge explicit and available to their students.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Michelle Yeo; Mark Lafave; Khatija Westbrook; Jenelle McAllister; Dennis Valdez; Breda Eubank
Date issued: 2017
Description: This chapter demonstrates how Decoding work can be productively utilized within a curriculum change process to help make design decisions based on a more nuanced understanding of student learning, and the relationship of a professional program to the field.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Michelle Yeo
Date issued: 2017
Description: This chapter argues that expert practice is an inquiry which surfaces a hermeneutic relationship between theory, practice, and the world, with implications for new lines of questioning in the Decoding interview.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

Contributor(s): Jennifer Boman; Genevieve Currie; Ron MacDonald; Janice Miller-Young; Michelle Yeo; Stephanie Zettel
Date issued: 2017
Description: In this chapter we describe the “Decoding the Disciplines” Faculty Learning Community at Mount Royal University, and how Decoding has been used in new and multidisciplinary ways in the various teaching, curriculum and research projects which are presented in detail in subsequent chapters.
Type: book chapter
Appears in collection(s): Centres & Institutes

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