International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 1, Number 2, 2007
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Developing Learning Environments: Creativity, Motivation and Collaboration in Higher Education
Ora Kwo, Tim Moore & John Jones, Editors (Hong Kong University Press, 2004)
This edited volume from Hong Kong provides a welcome answer to a fundamental question in the scholarship of teaching and learning: can knowledge emerging from inquiry in particular classrooms and programs be of interest or use to faculty teaching elsewhere? Can it travel? And if so, how far? The air distance from Hong Kong to the San Francisco Bay area, where I am writing this review, is approximately 6,900 statute miles. But these essays, while retaining the specificity of their setting, cross national, cultural, and institutional boundaries with ease.
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Mary Taylor Huber
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Stanford, California, USA
huber@carnegiefoundation.org
I am a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in Stanford, California, where I have been involved in research since 1985. A cultural anthropologist, I have directed projects on cultures of teaching in higher education and integrative learning in undergraduate education, and work closely with the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. I co authored the Carnegie report, Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate (1997) and The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons (2005), and co-edited and authored two other recent volumes on the scholarship of teaching and learning in the disciplines (2002) and in academic careers (2004).