Exploring Research-Based Teaching: New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Number 107 (J–B TL Single Issue Teaching and Learning) - Softcover

The purpose of this volume is to illustrate the wide scope of possibilities in interpreting and promoting research-teaching synergies. At the same time it is a goal to look more explicitly at what insitutions can do to promote two distinct forms of research-based teaching. The first perspective construes research-based teaching as student-focused, inquiry-based learning. According to this perspective, students are not simply taught the discipline-based content knowledge that has been generated through research, nor are they simply taught the processes of knowledge construction within the discipline or subject; instead, they themselves become generators of this knowledge. The second perspective shifts the lens to those who are doing the teaching and construes research-based teaching as teaching that is characterized by discipline-specific inquiry into the process of teaching itself. This is the 107th volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning, a quarterly journal published by Jossey-Bass. Click here to see the entire list of issues for New Directions for Teaching and Learning.

Carolin Kreber is a professor of higher education at the University of Edinburgh where she is also director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment. She is also adjunct associate professor at the University of Alberta, Canada.