Overcoming "hollowed" collegiality. (how departmental cultures effect teaching)

Change | July 1, 1994| | Copyright

Since publication of Ernest Boyer's "Scholarship Revisited" in 1992, much of the effort to improve undergraduate teaching has focused on faculty reward systems. While this work is compelling, we believe that reward structures offer only a partial explanation for the lack of effective undergraduate teaching. Of equal importance are broader questions about the organizational context within which undergraduate teaching occurs. The most crucial such context is the academic department.

Our research attempts to dig into conditions within departments that support or ...

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