The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) arose, in part, out of a need to rebalance the triadic mission of large academic institutions that have traditionally emphasized research over teaching and service. But how do you encourage SoTL when the faculty reward structure is weighted toward traditional research? Therein lies the SoTL paradox.…

The focus of this descriptive study was to determine the type and frequency of collaborative activities occurring between agriculture teachers and science teachers who taught in schools with agricultural education programs. Additional foci of this study included determining the extent to which science and agriculture teachers value collaborative…

This paper reports on a small-scale research inquiry, designed to support teachers in a Melbourne primary school to bring together the arts, reading and writing in their classrooms in ways that create possibilities for "art-full" teaching and learning. The principal, concerned by underperformance on State literacy tests of the school's…

The University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) General Education "Clusters" are innovations in student-centered undergraduate education focused on complex phenomena that require an interdisciplinary perspective. UCLA gerontology and geriatric faculty recognized the opportunity to introduce freshmen to the field of aging through this new…

Biochemistry and molecular biology occupy a unique place in the medical school curriculum. They are frequently studied prior to medical school and are fundamental to the teaching of biomedical sciences in undergraduate medical education. These two circumstances, and the trend toward increased integration among the disciplines, have led to…

Recently, the Modern Language Association (MLA) called for a major reorganization of undergraduate academic programs and even the structure of foreign-language departments. Typically, the initial two years of language instruction are taught by non-tenure-track instructors with little or no voice in the department. Faculty members mainly teach the…

When former chef and food broker, Tony Geraci was invited by his district superintendent to review New Hampshire's largest school food service program, he never imagined that he would be responsible for running one of the nation's most successful sustainable food service programs. The CONVAL District sustainable food program, create by Geraci and…

This document consists of the first eight volumes, 1984-1991, of the serial "Humanities Education". During this period, the serial was issued 3-4 times a year for a total of 29 issues. Typical issues are around 60 pages in size. Beginning with 1992, the name is projected to be changed to "Interdisciplinary Humanities". (AA)

In light of the civilization view, article made specific recommendations on the general idea of art, aesthetic education regarding art, and specific implications in periods of civilizational crisis. (Author/RK)

This report presents a model for effective organization of the curriculum. Typical curriculum patterns are examined and deficiences suggested: the hierarchical organization of the disciplines bears little relationship to student needs; departmental structures serve to divide faculty members and inhibit cooperation. It is suggested that a…

This paper presents an analysis of the task characteristics of various academic areas. Multidimensional scaling was performed at the University of Illinois on 168 scholars' judgments about the similarities among 36 academic task areas, and 54 scholars at a small western college judged similarities among 30 areas. The method used in the study was…

This paper examines several approaches to the study of the foundations of education and rejects all of them. Approaches are classified as "system-adaptive" or "system-reform" according to whether they examine existing educational systems and objectively analyze alternatives or whether they advocate specific new values or, indeed, freedom from all…

The model described here is composed of five elements: diagnostic procedures, selective review, foundations block, methods block, and professional block. (DS)

Discusses an interdisciplinary course which showed how physics could provide insights into literature. (DD)