Announcements, Copyright Policy, Submission Policy

Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 2

Back Matter (Announcements, Copyright Policy, Submission Policy)

1. Call for Applications – Political Science Education Fellow: Generalist
2. Call for Applications – Political Science Education Fellows: Area Specialists

Calls for Contributors

1.  Apply to join one of the two Research Groups focused on poli sci pedagogy that are meeting at APSA’s Virtual Research Conference, 10-11 April 2025. John Ishiyama and Michelle Deardorff will facilitate a session on reimagining the poli sci undergraduate major, while Amanda Rosen and Tavishi Bhasin will lead conversations on the state of the field of polisci pedagogy—its canon, graduate curriculum, and research agenda. Applications are due by 14 February. Find out more information and apply here: https://connect.apsanet.org/vrm2025/

2.  The co-editors of a forthcoming edited collection in the APSA-De Gruyter Teaching Civic Engagement Series invite authors to submit chapter proposals for a new volume, Teaching Civic Engagement in Challenging Times: Global Perspectives on Democratic Education for All. We seek contributions from teacher-scholars representing a wide variety of nations/regions, institutional types, and careers. Chapters may focus on theoretical arguments grounded in scholarly literature, assessment of curricular and cocurricular approaches, or detailed instructional designs.  Review the proposed table of contents here.

Those interested should submit two attached files — an abstract (+/- 500 words) and a brief bio (+/- 500 words) — to democratic.education.for.all@gmail.com by April 15^th 2025.  Notice of acceptance will be sent by June 1^st 2025, with first drafts due to the co-editors by August 31^st 2025.

The co-editors for this volume – the fourth in the now well-established Teaching Civic Engagement series – include: Cherie Strachan,  Alison Rios Millett McCartney, Euiyoung Kim, Christopher Isike, University of Pretoria, South Africa,  and John Ishiyama

Archived issues of The Political Science Educator through Vol. 27 can be found online at https://web.apsanet.org/teachingcivicengagement/political-science-educator/. Archived issues beginning with Vol. 26 are available at APSA Educate.

Submissions: Please send any article submissions or announcements for future newsletters to the editors at editor.pse.newsletter@gmail.com. Please include “PS Educator submission” in the subject line of your email, and include a short, two-sentence biographical statement. Research notes, reviews, and reflections are all welcome. Research notes in this newsletter should be considered as working papers and have received editorial review but have not undergone peer review.

The general policy of this newsletter is to publish all teaching-related articles that are submitted, as much as possible. We will, however, offer suggested revisions to improve the quality of the presentation, to verify academic integrity and citation standards, and to make the writing more accessible. We may occasionally require significant revisions or require authors to hold their submissions until a later issue, in order to ensure that ideas will be suitably ready for distribution, and we may occasionally refer articles or research notes to better-suited outlets.

Submission deadline is April 15 for the Summer/Fall newsletter, and December 15 for the Winter/Spring newsletter. Contributions may be as brief as 200–500 hundred words, but should not exceed 1500 words. Please use APSA citation style for in-text citations and a list of references at the end of your submission. Research notes, reviews, and reflections should include in-text citations for relevant academic literature. The editors reserve the right to make minor corrections for style, clarity, readability, grammar, spelling, or factual errors.