This excerpt from "Leading Academic Change: Essential Roles for Department Chairs" looks at seven approaches department chairs can take to make their departments more productive, scholarly learning communities. The chapter draws together a diversity of perspectives, theories,
concepts, terms, and strategies from a range of literatures-among them
cognitive science, higher education, psychology, and management. It distills seven transformative ideas: the social construction of knowledge, mental models, the learning paradigm, learning productivity, learning
communities, the scholarship of teaching, and assessment.
