Announcements (Summer/Fall 2024)

Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1

Member Announcements

Lauren Bell, Allison Rank, and Carah Ong Whaley will publish an edited volume in July 2024, Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an era of Divisive Politics with Palgrave Macmillan. Several PSE section members contributed chapters, and the authors “offer innovative pedagogies and praxis grounded in political and civic theories aimed at strengthening democratic norms, practices and institutions.”

Daniel Casey published “ChatGPT In Public Policy Teaching And Assessment: An Examination Of Opportunities And Challenges” in the Australian Journal of Public Administration.

Calls for Contributors

Mark L. Johnson is seeking contributions for a new Casebook project in Comparative Government. This will be a crowd-sourced Open Educational Resources (OER) text, focused on approximately 12-15 state-level case studies from around the globe.  The intent is for this OER text to serve as a companion to Bozonelos, et al. 2022, which is available at  https://introcp.com/.  Each contributed chapter would explore topics such as national and state history, identify, public participation, institutions and political economy from one nation-state. Authors with area or state-specific expertise are invited to participate, as well as institutional experts with interest in a particular country or region.  Authors may choose to focus on a single case, or to contribute up to two separate case chapters (4500-6000 words per chapter, not including citations). The final text will be distributed in accessible HTML and/or PDF format, under a CC-BY-NC license.  Contributing authors are encouraged to apply for OER grant funding from their home institution or other available sources. The targeted publication date is January 2025. Interested parties should contact MarkL.Johnson@minnesota.edu by June 15, 2024.

Bobbi Gentry and Shamira Gelbman are coediting “Youth Activism in America: an Encyclopedia of Ideals in Action for ABC-CLIO.” They are seeking contributors of short (250-500 word) entries on a variety of topics in youth activism in the United States. If you’re interested in contributing, please email them at gelbmans@wabash.edu or bgentry@bridgewater.edu.

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Important Note: This will likely be the last edition of the Political Science Educator to have a print/PDF edition; with section approval at the 2024 business meeting, the newsletter intends to move toward online publishing only via APSA Educate (on the same biannual schedule).