 Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mindreviewed by T. Mills Kelly - April 22, 2009  Title: Exploring Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind Author(s): Regan A. R. Gurung, Nancy L. Chick, and Aeron Haynie (Eds.) Publisher: Stylus Publishing, Sterling, VA ISBN: 1579223079, Pages: 340, Year: 2008 Search for book at Amazon.com Many years ago the actor John Houseman gave a legendary performance as Professor Kingsfield, holy terror of the Harvard Law School in the 1973 film The Paper Chase. While he was almost certainly exaggerating for the purposes of entertainment, Houseman’s portrayal of the signature pedagogy of the law school classroom was rooted in a particular approach to legal education—the case study method—to which his students had to adapt or fail. Whether or not the law is (or ever really was) taught the way it is portrayed in this film, it is certainly the case that most academic disciplines have something that approaches a common or at least widely accepted approach to pedagogy. The degree to which “common” and “widely accepted” rise to the level of a “signature pedagogy” is one of the several important issues raised by the authors of Exploring Signature Pedagogies. The many contributors to this collection examine fourteen different... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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