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

Thinking Like an Engineer: Using Engineering Habits of Mind and Signature Pedagogies to Redesign Engineering Education

In order to attract more young people into engineering and ensure that they are well equipped to meet future professional challenges we need to know how successful engineers think and act when faced with challenging problems. Using a mixed methods approach this study investigated the habits of mind that engineers use most frequently when engaged in the core activity of “making” things or “makin...

Signature pedagogies in the professions

Dædalus Summer 2005 The psychoanalyst Erik Erikson once observed that if you wish to understand a culture, study its nurseries. There is a similar principle for the understanding of professions: if you wish to understand why professions develop as they do, study their nurseries, in this case, their forms of professional preparation. When you do, you will generally detect the characteristic form...

Editorial: Signature Pedagogies and the Built Environment

In a lecture hosted by the National Research Council’s Center for Education, Shulman (2005) contrasted the different roles and responsibilities of faculty staff teaching students within subject areas or disciplines and those teaching students intending to practise within a professional area. Given the practice-oriented fields in which many built environment students go on to be employed such a ...

Pedagogies for Teaching CS1 with Java

The introduction of Java to CS1 has resulted in a proliferation of pedagogical approaches. As a more purely objectoriented language (no methods outside of a class construct), Java has forced educators to confront pedagogical issues that the move to C++ did not. In this paper I investigate the range of pedagogical options used to teach three crucial parts of almost any CS1 course taught with Jav...

Patterns and Pedagogies – approaches to developing e-learning environments