Making Your Case: Ten Questions for Departments and Individuals Building an Argument for Work in Discipline-Centered Education

Excerpt: In our chapter, "Is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning New to Chemistry?," Dennis Jacobs and I outlined the different ways in which education-focused faculty members have been represented in departments of chemistry (Coppola & Jacobs, 2002). Briefly, these include (a) a long-standing tradition of chemistry professors publishing in the 86-year-old Journal of Chemical Education, (b) the rise of the "chemical educators, " as a division of the American Chemical Society, (c) the growth of the Chemical Education Research community (similar to the disciplinary...