Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 Reflections By Justin Robertson (justin.robertson@cityu.edu.hk) The arrival of ChatGPT has sparked existential questions about the future of the humanities and social sciences and has been accompanied in its wake by a hardline response: some instructors treat any use of ChatGPT as a punishable form of plagiarism. The following…
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 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 assigned (sorry!), I remember spending a considerable amount of time reading outside of class. It took a…
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 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 work. I recently taught American National Government for the first time and it presented me with just…
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 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 boring! It evokes conspiracy theories about the “deep state” and causes glazed-over eyes from students who think…
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 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 have seen to-date, high levels of student engagement in their learning within this online classroom environment. However,…
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 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 is by no means an easy task for an institution, as political scientists know well from our…
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 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), Radford University faculty, staff, and students have created a campus-wide Wicked Initiative. The initiative encompasses co-curricular events, curriculum innovations, and even new…
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 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 government sector, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, consulting firms, and other public service oriented professions. A basic review of most…
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 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 Association meeting, we attended a roundtable discussion of findings from the 2020-2022 APSA Presidential Task Force on Rethinking Political Science Education….
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 1 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 prepare students for local, state, and national elections. All workshops were recorded and are available for free online…