St. 博纳旺蒂尔大学 has been awarded one of only 18 Humanities Connections Planning Grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

34美元,924 NEH grant will support a project titled “Collaborative Pathways for Inquiry-Based Education: Piloting a Humanities Education Partnership.”

One of just 18 Connections grants awarded in the country, the project will initially focus on collaborations between the Department of 历史 and the School of Education, 博士说. Phillip Payne, professor and Department of 历史 chair.

佩恩博士. 盖伯瑞尔斯沃茨 from the School of Education developed the project proposal. 斯沃茨, who was named associate dean of education at Baldwin Wallace University in May, will continue to serve as a consultant on the project.

The pilot phase of the Collaborative Pathways project will promote student engagement with two community partners — the Seneca Iroquois National Museum in Salamanca and Cuba Circulating 图书馆 in Cuba, New York — with inquiry-based experiential learning supported by technology in both history and education courses.

“Modern technology will allow us to build bridges to experiment and build on existing strengths. Working with our community partners allows our students to work on real-world history projects that they can use in their careers. Working with new technologies and techniques that are grounded in old-fashioned historical archival work is exciting, and a process that will prove extremely valuable to future educators,佩恩说.    

“The curricular innovations introduced through this 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 activities and assignments into their courses, and better prepare education students to teach history in the K-12 classroom,佩恩说.

这笔拨款对圣·路德·金来说是“天作之合”. 博纳旺蒂尔，斯沃茨说.

“We are incredibly excited to elevate the amazing work that students and faculty are already doing with technology and their respective disciplines,斯沃茨说。. “With the collaboration between history and the humanities and education already strong, this grant will strengthen student experiences and our relationships with community partners.”

如果试点项目成功, the university will scale up the project to incorporate additional humanities disciplines and multiple institutions, 佩恩说.

项目策划团队包括. 史蒂文·皮特和博士. Lori Henning, assistant professors of history; Chris Dalton, history lecturer; Dr. 特蕾西Schrems, assistant professor of adolescence education; and Bethanne Chimbel, visiting assistant professor of adolescence education.

The planning team will participate in professional development workshops and meet regularly to explore ways to work together and use technology to facilitate inquiry-based experiential learning in history and advance cooperation between faculty in history and education. 在即将到来的学年, a history course and education course will be paired in a virtual learning community to complete a shared project with a community partner.

The project will feature a technology-rich Humanities Hub to link project participants, 课程资源, and collaborative work and provide a platform for shared research, 分析, 和奖学金.

历史 was identified as the pilot academic program to partner with the School of Education because approximately two-thirds of SBU’s education majors choose a concentration in social studies education, 这需要多门历史课程. 佩恩说.

“Despite a large number of cross-enrollments in history and education courses, we’ve historically had little collaboration between history and education faculty,佩恩说. “历史 faculty members lack understanding of the education curriculum and pedagogical training that future teachers receive. 同时, humanities education needs to be integrated more intentionally into education courses with a focus on how historians work.”

这个为期一年的项目的其他目标包括:

• developing at least seven stand-alone classroom activities or assignments that incorporate the use of technology to promote inquiry;
• offering two professional development workshops for faculty led by visiting scholars on how to teach digital history and use technology to develop experiential learning projects for courses.

在项目期结束前, 佩恩说, the team will develop recommended strategies for scaling up the curricular model and implementing it more broadly across humanities disciplines and the School of Education.

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