Exploring More Signature Pedagogies: Approaches to Teaching Disciplinary Habits of Mind

Signature pedagogies are described by 54) and "characteristic forms of teaching and learning" (p. 52) of a discipline. The Socratic method in philosophy, the studio method in art and design, and undergraduate laboratory research in chemistry are a few of the examples cited by the contributing chapter authors in Exploring More Signature Pedagogies. As a follow-up to their 2008 book on the same subject, Nancy Chick, Aeron Haynie, and Regan Gurung have delved even further into signature pedagogies with contributions from the humanities and fine arts, the social and natural sciences, and interdisciplinary programs. Non-traditional fields such as Ignatian pedagogy and disability studies are also included. Contributions from England, Ireland, and Australia also expand the scope of their original work. Acknowledging that signature pedagogies are most often associated with professional schools, the final part of the book examines those "types of teaching that organize the fundamental ways in which future practitioners are educated for their new professions" (Shulman, 2005, p. 52) in occupational therapy, teacher education, social work, and nursing.