Political Science Educator

Scott Erb • University of Maine, Farmington

This essay originally appeared in the Political Science Educator’s August 2006 edition.  

On October 4, 2005, Chanda Luker, a survivor of the Cambodian genocide who was four years old when it began, spoke …

Jeffrey L. Bernstein • Eastern Michigan University

This essay originally appeared in the Political Science Educator’s December 2005 edition. 

If your graduate school experience was similar to mine, teaching and research were viewed as two very different aspects of the …

Nancy E. Wright • Long Island University – Brooklyn

This essay originally appeared in the Political Science Educator’s December 2005 edition.  

Class participation, while always a component of course grades, is not always assigned as useful a role as it …

Shyam K. Sriram and Amelia Glawe – Georgia Perimeter College

This essay originally appeared in the Political Science Educator’s Spring 2013 issue.

One of the most exciting new directions in our discipline has been the growing experimentation with library science‐social …

Shyam K. Sriram, Georgia Perimeter College

This essay originally appeared in the Political Science Educator’s Fall 2013 issue.

In the summer of 2011, I had the opportunity to attend a week-­‐long NEH¹ seminar on the American Lyceum at …

Frank Franz, PhD, James Madison High School, Vienna, Virginia, frank.franz@fcps.edu

This essay originally appeared in the Political Science Educator’s Spring 2014 issue.

For the past several years, I have used presidential daily diaries as an instructional tool with students …

Bruce Martin, PhD, New Mexico State University, Alamogordo

This essay originally appeared in the Political Science Educator’s Spring 2014 issue.

After nearly 15 years working as administrative staff in our college’s Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, I retired …

Elizabeth A. Bennion, Indiana University South Bend

This essay originally appeared in the Political Science Educator’s Spring 2014 issue.

As a regular PSE columnist who writes “The Teaching Scholar” column, I have urged PSE readers to take risks inside …

Michael Laurence, University of Western Ontario

This essay originally appeared in the Political Science Educator’s Fall 2014 issue.

Just imagine, as joyful or painful as it might be, that you are an undergraduate student again.

Political theory class. Always …

Elizabeth Matto, Director, Youth Political Participation Program Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University

This essay originally appeared in the Political Science Educator’s Fall 2014 issue.

As teacher-­‐scholars of civic engagement, we always are looking for ways to offer students learning …