Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning: Professional Literature that Makes a Difference.(Book review)
Publication Date: 01-NOV-07
Publication Title: Journal of Higher Education
Format: Online
Author: Braskamp, Larry A.

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Enhancing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning: Professional Literature that Makes a Difference, by Maryellen Weimer. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006. 243 pp. ISBN 0787973815.

This book can best be viewed as the work of a scholar who has a passion for and who has dedicated much of her professional career to both communicating about and advocating the utility of studying teaching and learning in the academy. In this book Maryellen Weimer demonstrates her scholarship, as judged by the traditional norms of scholarship in the academy, on a topic that is not yet been identified as a part of the traditional mold of scholarship, at least not in the way she advocates it. She is interested in informing professors who are dedicated teacher-scholars about the professional literature that is largely the work on the thousands of teacher-scholars who are not trained...



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