The members of Howe's committee were mesmerized by the charms of numbers, tables and ranked lists, but they also warned that schools performed many important tasks, not easily measured statistically, like teaching norms of civility and good citizenship.
That said, knowing the local context well increases the chances that the strategies implemented during the change process will have an impact on shifting the teaching norms.
Common examples include expectations of content coverage, lack of time, departmental teaching norms, student resistance, class size and room layout, and allotted class schedule (Henderson and Dancy, 2007).
This dialog was intentionally envisioned as part of the change process itself; in the discussion, faculty illuminated ideas that alluded to both current and envisioned teaching norms.
This comparison suggests that the strategies that might be employed to support shifts in teaching norms need to be tailored to departmental contexts.
This study seeks to describe the initial response of faculty to an effort to shift teaching norms in STEM, with a longer-term goal to alter the culture around teaching and learning in STEM.
This study seeks to describe the initial response of faculty to an effort to shift teaching norms, with a long-term goal of altering the culture around teaching and learning in STEM.
The project began with a group of campus leaders brainstorming a set of behaviors we would expect to observe if STEM teaching norms were to shift from teacher centered to student centered (Kember 1997; Trigwell and Prosser 2004; Weimer 2002).
"I think these early crushes do sort of orient you to culture … I think they teach you norms, cultural norms of attractiveness and sexuality".
While the teaching of norms through parenting, for example, is an important area for further intervention, cultural logics promoted by the state also need to be addressed, given the apparent preference for the "intact" family over the protection of women.
