The newsletter of APSA’s Political Science Education Organized Section.
winter 2022
co-editors
Colin Brown (Northeastern University) & Matt Evans (Northwest Arkansas Community College)
Table of Contents
The Teacher-Scholar
The January 6th Insurrection and the Civic Education Imperative…
Originally published summer 2020, this collection features select PSE’s content to showcase the organized sections intellectual heritage while remaining useful to contemporary educators. The resources are organized into five tables:
…Political Science Educator: volume 25, issue 2
Featured Essays
John A. Tures, LaGrange College
Simulations have been frequently mocked in the popular media as a poor substitute for the real thing. But practice tests may provide the ability for students …
Political Science Educator: volume 25, issue 2
Reviews
Kayla C. Isenbletter, Indiana University South Bend, David J. Hurley Indiana University South Bend, and Elizabeth A. Bennion, Indiana University South Bend
Exposure to political beliefs different from one’s own …
Political Science Educator: volume 25, issue 2
Reviews
Kayla C. Isenbletter, Indiana University South Bend, David J. Hurley, Indiana University South Bend, and Elizabeth A. Bennion, Indiana University South Bend
Simulations can be among the most helpful active learning …
Political Science Educator: volume 25, issue 2
Featured Essays
Josh Franco, Cuyamaca College
As instructors at community colleges, liberal arts colleges, and universities, and governmental or corporate training programs, we are all familiar with books, textbooks, workbooks, journal articles, lecture …
Political Science Educator: volume 25, issue 2
Featured Essays
Paige Johnson Tan, Radford University
In graduate school one time, I drove up from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville with my faculty mentor to a Washington, DC think tank for …
Political Science Educator: volume 25, issue 2
The Teacher-Scholar
Elizabeth A. Bennion, Indiana University South Bend
On Jan. 6, 2021, rioters attacked the United States Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election and disrupt …
Political Science Educator: volume 25, issue 2
Featured Essays
Mark Benton, University of Missouri, & Elizabeth Dorssom, University of Missouri
Facilitating class engagement for undergraduate students can be difficult. Undergraduates may be less inclined to engage in class discussions for …
Political Science Educator: volume 25, issue 1
Featured Essays
Gregory A. Petrow, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska, Omaha
Teaching quantitative analysis is important in disciplines such as political science that conduct the scientific study of human society. …