Issues of Teaching and Learning, 5(6)

What's Inside ITL

• The Nature of Disciplines: Implications for Teaching and Learning
• Is there a discipline of higher education?
• A foot in both camps?
• Excellence in Teaching
• Web resources

... an academic discipline... must specify four things. First, it will have to identify an intellectual domain consisting of a body of credible organized knowledge that is unique, is related to man's concerns in living, and is an array of ideas related in sequential fashion. Second, an academic discipline has a history of the organizing concepts that constitute its domain. Third, there must be a clear delineation of the modes of inquiry by which the discipline validates itself, creates new knowledge, and advances as a discipline. Finally, an academic discipline must be instructive; curriculum content must derive from its intellectual domain.

• Waetjen, W. B. (1993). Technological Literacy Reconsidered. Journal of Technology Education, 4(2).
  Available at <http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v4n2/waetjen.jte-v4n2.html>.

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