Are there Discipline Specific Teaching Approaches? Empirical Results to Teaching Approaches in Different Disciplines of Higher Education

In planning and realisation of their courses teachers pursue different approaches which affect the quality of their teaching. Furthermore it is frequently postulated that these approaches to teaching differ with the discipline although there is rarely any research data from German-speaking countries. In this article a study is presented, for which the approaches to teaching of university teachers at four universities were evaluated. It will be shown where discipline-specific differences of the approaches to teaching can be found in the data. The implications of the results for the view of approaches to teaching in higher education as well as for lecturers’ qualification programs will be discussed.

11.08.10 | Dietrun Lübeck (Berlin)