How to integrate study and research paths into university courses? Teaching formats and ecologies

The implementation of inquiry-oriented instructional proposals at university level collides with many constraints related to the current pedagogical paradigm based on the transmission of previously established knowledge organisations. One of them is the fact that subject's agendas are determined by a set of topics to study, not of questions to inquire about. Our research team has worked during this last decade in the design and implementation of an inquiry-oriented instructional format called study and research paths (SRPs) within the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic. This paper focuses on different ways of integrating SRPs in current university teaching, by linking inquiry to the study of knowledge organisations, without reducing it to a means to better learn the curricular content.