Reflections
By Colin M. Brown (colin.brown@northeastern.edu)
I came out of an undergraduate and graduate tradition of assigning massive reading lists on each course syllabus. While I often did not read everything …
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Reflections
By Rebecca A. Glazier (raglazier@ualr.edu)
Preparing a new class can be a great way to think about pedagogy with a clean slate. But it can also be a lot of …
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Reflections
By Jen Spindel (Jennifer.Spindel@unh.edu)
Announcing that you are going to spend a semester studying bureaucracy is a great way to kill the beginning-of-semester enthusiasm for a new course. Bureaucracy?! So …
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Reflections
By Dale Mineshima-Lowe (d.mineshima-lowe@parami.edu.mm)
I’ve spent the past two plus years teaching synchronous online classes twice a week to undergraduate students in Myanmar (Burma). As a visiting faculty member, I …
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Reflections
By Niva Golan-Nadir (niva.golan@post.runi.ac.il)
During troublesome events, academia must adjust itself to new realities to be able to follow through the academic year, despite the challenges it faces. Yet, change …
Reflections
By Paige Tan (etan3@radford.edu), Heather Keith (hkeith1@radford.edu), and Tay Keong Tan (ttan2@radford.edu)
In response to a book group on Paul Hanstedt’s Creating Wicked Students (2018), …
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Reflections
By Amber Overholser (aroverholser@saumag.edu) and Sante Mastriana (smastriana@closeup.org)
Students often enter Master of Public Administration (MPA) programs with a desire to work and make positive change within the …
Reflections
By Matthew Stein (Matthew.Stein@csn.edu), Alexandra Macias (alexandra.cole@csun.edu), and Jennifer De Maio (jennifer.demaio@csun.edu)
On the same day we presented our research at the 2023 American Political Science …
The Teacher-Scholar
By Elizabeth A. Bennion (ebennion@iusb.edu)
In this edition of The Teacher-Scholar, I want to draw people’s attention to a range of voter education and engagement workshops designed to …
The American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Teaching and Learning program is pleased to announce a call for proposals for a small cohort of political scientists to participate in a three-day teaching and learning symposium June …
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