title: The study of teaching needs an inclusive functional definition.
abstract: Frameworks that facilitate interdisciplinary communication on the topic of teaching are certainly needed. However, these frameworks require a solid and widely accepted definition of teaching on which to build. As Kline states, the functional definition forms a good basis for productive comparative work. I briefly discuss the most contentious aspects of the functional definition, and suggest that these issues must be resolved before more detailed frameworks become useful.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology,Stanford University,Stanford, CA 94305.lfogarty@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: Laurel
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fogarty
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication