Collaborative Pathways for Inquiry Based Education: Piloting a Humanities Education Partnership

FAIN: AKA-285771-22

Saint Bonaventure University (St. Bonaventure, NY 14778-9800)
Phillip Gene Payne (Project Director: September 2021 to present)
Gabriel Swarts (Co Project Director: May 2022 to present)

Collaboration between faculty in history and in education to develop and pilot new inquiry-based curricular plans and resources.

St. Bonaventure University proposes “Collaborative Pathways for Inquiry-Based Education: Piloting a Humanities Education Partnership,” which will pilot a new pedagogical approach that promotes (1) collaboration between humanities disciplines and the School of Education, (2) student engagement with community partners, and (3) inquiry-based experiential learning supported by technology in both humanities and education courses. The project will strengthen history faculty members’ understanding of the needs of education students, train both history and education faculty members to incorporate inquiry-based experiential learning into their courses, and better prepare education students to teach the humanities in the K-12 classroom. The faculty team will include four history and three adolescence education faculty members. Phillip Payne, professor and chair of history, and Gabriel Swarts, assistant professor and director and chair of adolescence education, will serve as project co-directors.