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 …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 1
The Teacher-Scholar
By Elizabeth A. Bennion (ebennion@iu.edu)
Generation Z makes up 20.7 percent of the US population. It is more racially and ethnically diverse than previous generations and on track to …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 1
Reflections
By Stefani Langehennig (stefani.langehennig@du.edu), Zach del Rosario (zdelrosario@olin.edu), Mine Dogucu (mdogucu@uci.edu)
Introduction
Despite their potential, Bayesian methods are rarely taught in undergraduate political science and public …
Political Science Educator: volume 29, issue 1
Dear Colleagues,
I hope this message finds everyone well as spring terms wrap up in the coming weeks.
The Political Science Education Executive Committee has been busy with continuing and new initiatives this …