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- Boman Jennifer (author); Currie Genevieve (author); MacDonald Ron (author); Miller-Young Janice (author); Yeo Michelle (author); Zettel Stephanie (author)
- Date issued
- 2015
- Description
- Tuning in on teaching practice in any discipline may well run up against a problem of tacit knowledge--knowledge crucial to the discipline’s ways of thinking and practicing, but by nature obscure. Teachers who omit to make their tacit knowledge explicit in the classroom cause learning bottlenecks for their students. Tacit knowledge can be made explicit to its teacher owner, with positive effect on her teaching, in an interview that invites her to address how she thinks and practices in work her students, lacking her tacit knowledge, find impossible to master (Middendorf & Pace, 2004). We have conducted half a dozen such 90-minute to two-hour interviews with university teachers in...
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- Teaching and Learning; Centres & Institutes
- Contributor(s)
- Boman Jennifer (author); Currie Genevieve (author); MacDonald Ron (author); Miller-Young Janice (author); Yeo Michelle (author); Zettel Stephanie (author)
- 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.
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- Centres & Institutes