Making Your Case: Ten Questions for Departments and Individuals Building an Argument for Work in Discipline-Centered Education

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Brian Paul Coppola, University of MichiganFollow

Abstract

Excerpt: In our chapter, "Is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning New to Chemistry?," Dennis Jacobs and I outlined the different ways in which education-focused faculty members have been represented in departments of chemistry (Coppola & Jacobs, 2002). Briefly, these include (a) a long-standing tradition of chemistry professors publishing in the 86-year-old Journal of Chemical Education, (b) the rise of the "chemical educators, " as a division of the American Chemical Society, (c) the growth of the Chemical Education Research community (similar to the disciplinary...

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Coppola, Brian Paul (2011) "Making Your Case: Ten Questions for Departments and Individuals Building an Argument for Work in Discipline-Centered Education," International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 5.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2011.050105