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= Signature pedagogy = Signature pedagogy was a term first coined by Lee S. Shulman to describe discipline-specific pedagogies used in particular professions.

Background
Shulman discusses how distinctive ways of teaching and "habits of mind" that characterize particular professions, for example: the Socratic method is used in the teaching of law, and how medical rounds are used when training doctors and other health professionals. Signature pedagogies include surface, deep and implicit structures of discipline-specific pedagogy. Surface structures are those which are concrete and operational acts of teaching that include showing and demonstrating, as well questioning and answering, for example. Deep structures go beyond the teaching of content and relate to teaching how members of the profession think and act. Implicit structures include sharing the "hidden curriculum" of a discipline, as well as underlying values that shape the professionals in the field.

Research and publications
Those working in the field of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning will often refer to signature pedagogies to help them better understand how to research excellence in teaching practice.

Research journals
Research about signature pedagogies has been published in Daedalus, Educational Researcher , Educational Studies , Innovative Higher Education , the Journal of Educational Administration , Planning and Changing , and the Journal of E-Learning and Distance Education , among others.

Books
Edited volumes on the topic of signature pedagogies include Exploring signature pedagogies: Approaches to teaching disciplinary habits of mind and Exploring More Signature Pedagogies.

Other publications
In addition to research articles and books, some Open Educational Resources on signature pedagogies have been created in recent years.