Active Learning

The Identity Exercise – a Tool to teach about different type of identities in the classroom

October 12, 2022

Teaching Race, Ethnicity, and Politics: Identity, Discrimination, & Inequality

Victor Asal,  Rockefeller College, University at Albany, SUNY


Students often have a hard time understanding the challenges others face in society related to identities like race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion. …

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Space Traders – A Classroom Simulation

October 12, 2022

Teaching Race, Ethnicity, and Politics: Identity, Discrimination, & Inequality

Dr. Rachel Yon[1]


Derrick Bell’s Space Traders, set in the year 2000, posits a modern-day choice of how valuable people are in comparison to resources.[2] He considers how the …

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Playing Politics: Using Games to Help Students Prepare for Final Assessments

June 16, 2021

Justin Zimmerman & Kumar Ramanathan, Northwestern University

The Challenge

We have all stared into it: the black boxes of indifference as we lecture on the past and present lessons of political science. Virtual teaching and learning can be tedious and …

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