Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 2
Reflections
By Nathaniel Smith (nsmith2@nebrwesleyan.edu)
In an increasingly interconnected world, the traditional classroom model faces the challenge of adequately preparing students for global citizenship. Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) offers a …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 2
Reviews
The advice faculty typically get on how to address Generative AI in their teaching varies between technocratic optimism, doomsday pessimism, pragmatic suggestions, and ambivalence. The ANALOG Inspiration[1] card deck grounds itself …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 2
Reflections
By Kerri Ryer (ryerkerri@fhda.edu)
Research strongly demonstrates a positive correlation between participation in mentoring programs and student success (Kitchen et al. 2025). Transfer student participation in a mentoring program positively …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 2
Dear PSE Colleagues,
Happy New Year to all! By the time this is published, I’m hoping this finds everyone well rested and rejuvenated from the winter holiday, ready to tackle the demands of …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 2
Teacher Scholar
By Elizabeth A. Bennion (ebennion@iu.edu)
Political science educators face an unusual paradox. Faculty are asked to cultivate informed, active citizens at the very moment when biology, psychology, and neuroscience …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 2
Reflections
By Diana Owen (owend@georgetown.edu), Jamie Joseph (jj1173@georgetown.edu), Naomi Rader (nr757@georgetown.edu), and Patrick McSweeney (prm65@georgetown.edu)
At Georgetown University’s Civic Education Research Lab (CERL), we use …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 1
Reflections
By Jack Santucci (jack.santucci@gmail.com)
The Article Hunt (AH) is a tool for teaching students how to read academic articles quickly and research their own interests (Fisher and Frey 2014). It …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 1
Reflections
By Lila Hearn (hearnl1@unlv.nevada.edu)
Modern political thought in the West cannot be understood apart from biblical tradition any more than it can be severed from the intellectual heritage of the …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 1
Reflections
By Cristina Juverdeanu (c.juverdeanu@qmul.ac.uk)
I teach an advanced qualitative methods course and, as most modules of the kind, it focuses on key concerns one should be aware of when dealing …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 1
Reflections
By Titus Alexander (titusa03@gmail.com)
Socrates taught in ancient Athens but never published anything. Yet we imitate him today, over 2,000 years later, because his student Plato and generations of teachers …