Despite national requirements for accredited teaching qualifications, there is a lack of literature on disciplinary differences in student learning in higher education. Academics at a UK research-intensive university were asked to report on the existence of literature or knowledge concerned with how students learnt in their subject. No relevant…

Examines how a disciplinary shift was brought about in an individual. The impetus for the shift was social and organizational, the process was undergone in a bureaucratic context, and the outcome was a scientific identity of a transdisciplinary nature, in which competencies in the social and life sciences were interwoven in daily practices. (EV)

This article outlines the recently developed idea of "Threshold Concepts" and explains how this idea may be used to describe the progress of learning in economics. The authors examine the relationship between threshold concepts, key concepts and conceptual change and suggest that a distinction between basic, discipline and procedural…

Biology education in Britain has developed since the eighteenth century from dependence on medicine and economic botany to a vigorous and autonomous field. This progress is due partially to the influx of European ideas, individuals, the imported rigors of the physical sciences, and various other external factors. (Author/MSE)

A case study approach using the physical education area was used to study change in subject areas with a formerly practical base. It was found that strong leadership skills, political acumen, and a research profile can help to secure a new status for a subject area. (Author/DB)

An ethnographic account of the community of academic physicists is based on interviews, and a picture of what physics is like as a discipline is constructed. The features of its epistemology that differentiate it from other disciplines and characteristics (career structure, value-system and preferred modes of communication) are described.…

A study analyzed faculty goals for intellectual development in introductory college courses, to examine disciplinary differences and similarities. Faculty usually assumed intellectual development would occur in conjunction with knowledge acquisition. Differences were found between disciplines, but not along conventional hard/soft discipline lines.…

This article argues that the analysis of changes in the social position of women needs to distinguish between levels of social practice and psychic subjectification. The argument draws on Lacan's conception of the relationship between subjectivity, desire and sexual difference to describe gendered aspects of subjectivity embedded within the…