Professional Background

Gabriel P. Swarts is an Affiliate Counseling Professor in the School of Education. After teaching in public schools in Northeast Ohio for almost a decade, Gabriel P. Swarts is currently an Associate Dean of Human Development Disciplines at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. Earning a Ph.D. in Curriculum & Instruction from Kent State University in 2017 and serving prior faculty appointments at the University of Wyoming and St. Bonaventure University, his research interests and publications include work on artificial intelligence and machine learning in education, privacy and data ethics, global education, and teacher education. Outside of academic life, Swarts records and produces music and spends as much time as possible with his 5-year-old daughter, Siena.

His teaching and learning have been greatly impacted by developing his teaching rationale. He believes teaching and learning are personal, moral, political, and context specific. As an educator, he has a responsibility to educate students within an increasingly interconnected, globalized, and democratic society. Swarts’ strong theoretical background in technology and education, curriculum studies, intercultural education, and democratic educational philosophies enable direct connections to his research, and vice versa.

Stewarts has an extended list of grants, including Lane, C., Janas, D., Swarts, G. P., and McCargar, J. (2023). Robert Noyce Capacity Building Grant, National Science Foundation (NSF). One-year institutional award, totaling $125,000. FUNDED; Payne, P.; Swarts, G. P. (2022). Humanities Connections (Planning Grant): National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): “Humanities Hub,” a cross-curricular technology hub for humanities work. One-year individual award, totaling $35,000. FUNDED; Swarts, G. P. (2022). Addressing Educator Shortages Grant: Ohio Department of Education (ODE) and Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE): three-year state award, totaling $160,000. Funded. Original PI: Dean Mike Smith; and Payne, P.; and Swarts, G. P. (2021). Keenan/Martine Grant, St. Bonaventure University. One-year individual award, totaling $7,000. FUNDED.

Swarts has contributed to education literature with publications such as ‘An Academic Writing Program as Displacement Space: New Stories and New Positions’ in the Journal of Writing Research; ‘Using art to reveal democracy (Hint: It’s a little punk rock)’ in the International Journal on Social and Education Sciences; ‘Finding Spaces: Analysis of Technology Use and the Teacher Education Technology Competencies (TETCs) in Secondary Education Teaching Methods Courses’ in the Education Sciences, 11(11), 733; ‘The impact of U.S. pre-service teachers’ high-stakes, accountability era schooling experiences on their future teaching practices’ in the Journal of Teacher Education and Educators; ‘I am a citizen of the digital world: How information and communication technologies have altered humanity and created new spaces for global citizenship education’ in Research in Social Sciences and Technology; ‘The School of “Onlife:” How technology and educational data will force us to rethink teaching and learning’ in the Teacher’s College Record; and ‘Reflective practices in a high school service-learning Classroom' in the Journal of Education and Practice. 9(36), 88-99.

His presentations include ‘Humanities Hub: A technology space for collaborative humanities curriculum and instruction,’ in New Orleans, LA, 2024; ‘Breaking the Speed of Information: What Virilio’s Concepts of speed and acceleration can offer curriculum studies in the information age’ in 2021; and 01000011 01101001 01110100 01101001 01111010 01100101 01101110[1] (Citizen). CUFA Presentation, Austin, TX, 2019: ‘Using place-based education to teach economics.’ Austin, TX, 2019; ‘A Curriculum of Machines: Key Questions for Curriculum Studies in the Information Age.' Toronto, Canada, 2019; and ‘Big data and accountability: Lessons from government data collection trends and the implications for teaching, learning, and the accountability movement’ Toronto, Canada, 2019.

Academic Degrees

• Kent State University, PhD in Curriculum & Instruction, 2017
• Kent State University, MA in History, 2006