AAPT Grants For Innovation in Teaching

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The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) is dedicated to the advancement of the art of teaching philosophy. One of the AAPT’s initiatives in support of this mission is an ongoing small grant program: the AAPT Grants For Innovation in Teaching.

Through this program, the AAPT is offering competitive small grants to support the implementation of projects involving innovations or modifications to one’s teaching.  Grants are awarded biannually, in even years. Preference will be given to those projects that have a broad appeal. Grant applications should be sure to specify the aim of the project, its learning goals, your criteria of success, and your proposed timeline.

It is expected that grant recipients will publicly disseminate the projects in some form after completion (the AAPT website will be available as a potential vehicle for this). Grant recipients are required to submit a final project report due after the completion of the project, which will be posted on our AAPT website.

Eligibility: Open to any instructor teaching at the college-level: full-time, part-time, adjuncts, and grad students are all welcome. Grant recipients must be current AAPT members.  The call for applications is typically distributed in May, with applications due in August.

The 2024 call for applications is now available.  Applications are due August 31th, 2024.

Recipients of the 2022 AAPT Grants
for Innovation in Teaching
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Russell Marcus and Catherine Schmitt, Hamilton College, “Summer Program Inclusivity Consultant”

The Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy (HCSPiP) is a two-week laboratory for pedagogical innovation, bringing together twenty undergraduates, three graduate-student tutors, and three visiting professors to experiment with undergraduate instruction in philosophy.  The inclusivity consultant  funded by the AAPT Grant for Innovation in Teaching will help prepare faculty and tutors for the program. Our goal is to promote equity among student voices and help us to place diverse perspectives at the center of the curriculum. The consultant will help instructors both to create productive learning spaces within the program and to carry skills learned during the workshop to their home institutions.

Recent Grants:

  • 2020, https://philosophyteachers.org/2020-aapt-grant-recipients/
    • “Tulsa Race Massacre at 100: Contractualism and Reparations” (Heather Wilburn)
    • “Difficult Conversations about Race, Class, and Gender” (Wes Siscoe)
  • 2018, https://philosophyteachers.org/2018-aapt-grant-recipients/
    • “Bringing Philosophy to Life for Introductory Students” (Rebecca Scott)
    • “Social Dimensions of Equality” (Kristin Seemuth Whaley)
    • “Reflective Journaling In and Out of Philosophy Classrooms” (David C. Spewak, Jr.)
    • “Steve Biko as a Means of Introducing First-Year Philosophy Students to Modern Philosophy” (Gregory Swer)

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