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Menlo Park, CA, November 2000—As interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning spreads, growing numbers of faculty are asking questions about the character of the work and how to do it.

In Opening Lines: Approaches to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a new publication from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, answers to those questions are found in eight case studies and in a concluding chapter by Carnegie President Lee Shulman focused on future directions for the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Edited by Carnegie Senior Scholar Pat Hutchings, who heads the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL), the volume contains case studies by faculty members who have investigated significant issues in the teaching and learning of their fields. Hutchings’ opening chapter provides an overview of themes crosscutting the eight cases.

The case studies examine teaching and student learning in different fields and institutions, and illustrate a wide range of methods for investigating teaching and learning.

"As suggested by the title, their accounts focus on the doing of this kind of investigative work—on the methods and approaches for undertaking the scholarship of teaching and learning," said Hutchings.

An accompanying CD-ROM provides documents and artifacts from the work of the case study authors, including syllabi, samples of student work, videotaped interviews with students, and assessment instruments. Further resources related to the scholarship of teaching and learning also appear on the CD-ROM.

"The collection is meant to be an antidote to the sense that there’s a single right way to do this work," Hutchings said, "or that you have to have an extensive background as an educational researcher to do it."

Single copies are $15, with a 20 percent discount on orders of 20 or more and may be ordered from:

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