Reading across the Disciplines (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)

By: Rosemary Green and Daniel Shapiro and Pat Hutchings and Margaret Mackey and Angela Zito and Heather C. Easterling and Joyce Tang Boyland and M. Soledad Caballero and Yvonne Davila and John Eliason and Nelson Graff and Neela Griffiths and Rachel Henry and Rebecca Kersnar and Aimee Knupsky and Ryne Leuzinger and Elizabeth Marquis and Trent W. Maurer and Brett McCollum and Layne A. Morsch and Catelyn Shipp and Dana Statton Thompson and Kris Vasquez and Jakob T. Zehms and Jordan R. Donovan

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Synopsis: Reading Across the Disciplines offers a collection of twelve essays detailing a range of approaches to dealing with students' reading needs at the college level. Transforming reading in higher education requires more than individual faculty members working on SoTL projects in their particular fields. Teachers need to consider reading across the disciplines. In this collection, authors from Australia and North America, teaching in a variety of disciplines, explore reading in undergraduate courses, doctoral seminars, and faculty development activities. By paying attention to the particular classroom and placing those observations in conversation with scholarly literature, they create new knowledge about reading in higher education from disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives. Reading Across the Disciplines demonstrates how existing research about reading can be applied to specific classroom contexts, offering models for faculty members whose own research interests may lie elsewhere but who believe in the importance of reading.