PIH Founding

John W. Saye (sayejoh@auburn.edu) is Mildred Chesire Fraley Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Secondary Social Science Education at Auburn University and founding director of the Persistent Issues in History Network and of the Social Science Inquiry Research Collaborative. His research interests include authentic pedagogy, problem-based inquiry, teacher thinking, and collaborative communities of practice. His most recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Curriculum Studies, Theory and Research in Social Education, the Journal of Social Studies Research, Social Studies Today: Research and Practice, and the Wiley Handbook of Social Studies Research.

Dr. Thomas Brush (tbrush@iu.edu) is the Barbara B. Jacobs Chair in Education and Technology, Professor of Instructional Systems Technology within the School of Education at Indiana University, and founding co-director of the Persistent Issues in History Network . Dr. Brush’s research interests focus on developing methods and strategies to promote inquiry-oriented learning, particularly with more open-ended instruction. This involves studying methods for integrating tools to promote collaborative problem-based learning strategies into the learning environment itself and developing alternative techniques to deliver instruction to students. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 publications related to his research interests. He has also served as a project director, co-project director, or evaluator for over a dozen competitively-funded projects from competitions including the National Science Foundation, the Google Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the US Department of Education.