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	Workshop (Critical Insights) Translating ideas on teaching, learning and assessment into the language and media of the disciplines Anna Carew University of Wollongong carew@uow.edu.au Academic disciplines have their own marked cultures and the influence of disciplinary culture on teaching is both pervasive and formative. Disciplinary context has been related with particular approaches to teaching (Prosser et al., 2005) and ways of combining generic aspects of teaching (Neumann, 2001). Given the strength of discipline in shaping approaches to teaching, how might we best inform and support improved teaching amongst these academic tribes? One approach is to translate ideas on teaching, learning and assessment from academic development into the language and symbols of the disciplines. During such a translation process, ideas on teaching, learning and assessment would become contextualized, commingled, hybridized, and as such, tailored to the needs of their new disciplinary owners. This workshop will support mixed groups of discipline-based academics, academic developers and interested others in co-operatively and creatively translating theories, ideas and concepts on teaching, learning and assessment into the language, media, modes or symbols of various academic disciplines. By the end of this workshop, participants will be better able to discuss one or two ideas on teaching, learning and assessment in a language and media appropriate to a discipline-based academic. Groups will be encouraged to be creative, playful, think divergently and will be allocated an unlimited imaginary budget for realizing their representation of teaching and learning idea. Neumann (2001) Studies in Higher Education 26(2) 135-146 Prosser et al. (2005) Instructional Science 33, 137-157