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Wissenschaftsdidaktik (literally "science-didactics") is an approach to the learning and teaching of scientific disciplines, from

beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie (Fach-)Wissenschaften gelehrt und gelernt werden können. Sie ist eine besondere Form der Didaktik für Hochschulen, in der die Wissenschaft selbst zum Thema gemacht wird, weswegen sie auch als Metawissenschaft bezeichnet wird. Im deutschsprachigen Raum ist diese Form von Didaktik weitaus weniger bekannt und verbreitet als Hochschuldidaktik. Erste Überlegungen zur Wissenschaftsdidaktik stammen aus der Zeit der deutschen Hochschulreformen in den 1960er und 1970er Jahren, sind aber weitgehend folgenlos geblieben. Seit den 2010er Jahren wird wieder stärker an dem Thema gearbeitet, wie insbesondere mehrere von Gabi Reinmann und Rüdiger Rhein herausgegebenen Sammelbände Wissenschaftsdidaktik zeigen. Noch hat sich die Wissenschaftsdidaktik allerdings weder auf eine klare Definitionen noch auf eindeutige Abgrenzungen zu anderen Formen von Didaktik verständigt.

At present, Wissenschaftsdidaktik is characterised by a lack both of clear definitions and of clear delimitations towards related concepts.

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History
Wissenschaftsdidaktik was pioneered s

by Joan Middendorf and David Pace, directors of the Indiana University Freshman Learning Project from 1998 to 2010, for collegiate learning. They found a discrepancy between the content taught and the actual prerequisites for success in many courses. They attributed this to automatic, and thus untaught, processes in expert knowledge. They hypothesized that students were often provided with incomplete conceptual frameworks, leaving them unable to tackle significant challenges.

Etymology
Wissenschaftsdidaktik was pioneered s

Overview
Wissenschaftsdidaktik builds upon the realisation that scientific work necessarily involves reflection on the production of scientific knowledge, the scientific mindset, as well as their transmission and appropriation. It thus posits that there is a pedagogical element inherent to scientific practice, and that any ...

Wissenschaftsdidaktik seeks to examine science itself

can be seen as a critical reflection on science itself in the context of its communication. This communication may involve university students specifically, or other audiences including members of the broader scientific community as well as members of the general public.

Related frameworks
Related to Wissenschaftsdidaktik are the concepts of Decoding the Disciplines, Discipline-Based Educational Research (DBER) and Scholarship of teaching and learning.

DBER differs from the more general SoTL concept in that it is closely linked to specific subject areas, such as physics or mathematics. This is often reflected in very subject-specific questions, and actors in this research area also often have a subject background rather than a pedagogical one.

Kortemeyer, G.(2020): Physics Education Research: a replicable model for Discipline-Based Educational Research at European universities? ETH Learning and Teaching Journal, 2(1), 137–146

Closely related to SoTL is also the Decoding the Disciplines approach, which aims more at making the tacit knowledge of experts explicit and helping students master mental actions.

Pace, D. (2017): The Decoding the Disciplines Paradigm - Seven Steps to Increased Student Learning. Bloomington: Indiana University Press