The Most Beautiful Theories

Brian P. Coppola
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055
J. Chem. Educ., 2007, 84 (12), p 1902
DOI: 10.1021/ed084p1902
Publication Date (Web): December 1, 2007

Abstract

Two centuries of scholarly practices have transformed the way research is done. The modern research group, as a relatively recent advance, provides faculty advisors and students with a mutually beneficial relationship, namely, taking on large and complex scientific problems in exchange for scholarly professional development. An argument for understanding the scholarship of teaching and learning is made by defining, and then broadening, a basis set of four characteristics of scholarship in research.

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History / Philosophy

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  • Received: August 03, 2009

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