Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Collaboration is not a core practice in humanities teaching and learning, despite convincing arguments that it should be. To encourage collaboration in classrooms and with communities, DePaul University has developed its Experiential Humanities Collaborative. The Collaborative connects faculty, community partners, and students to co-design and implement new community-engaged, project-based humanities courses. This article outlines several rationales for collaboration in the humanities, situates the approaches of the Experiential Humanities Collaborative among those of similar initiatives, and shares outcomes from the project’s early years. While teaching and learning the humanities will always involve independent reading, reflection, and writing, the Collaborative demonstrates the value, as well as the challenges, of adding collaboration to these core practices.
Author: Lisa Dush
Institution: DePaul University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
Award: G8059399700
OpenAlex ID: W4404591880