Political Science Educator: Volume 29, Issue 2

A Newsletter from APSA's Political Science Education Organized Section

Volume 29, Issue 2 - Winter/Spring 2026
Editor: Matt Evans (Northwest Arkansas Community College); Assistant Editor: Colin M. Brown (Northeastern University)

 

Letter from the Section President | Maureen Feeley

The Teacher-Scholar

Nature, Nurture, and the Civic Classroom: Teaching Civic Engagement When Predispositions Are Real | Elizabeth A. Bennion

Reflections

Bridging Borders: Collaborative Online International Learning and the Future of International Politics Education | Nathaniel Smith

Bringing Real-Time Politics into Asynchronous Courses Through Social Media | Elizabeth I. Dorssom

Lab-Style Thesis Advising in Political Science: A Scalable Model for Student Research | Charles Crabtree, Devontae Lacasse, Eleanor Schifino, and Jayanth Uppaluri

Using the Citizens Campaign “10 Steps of No Blame Problem Solving Method” to Teach Students How to Work with Policy Makers to Solve Community Problems | Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan

Making Independent Study Multimodal: A Video-First Approach in Political Science | Charles Crabtree and Maria Proulx

The Classroom at the Crossroads: Politics, Religion, and Pedagogy | Niva Golan-Nadir

Why we should teach qualitative research methods in undergraduate and graduate courses | Corina Lacatus

Making Research Work: Empowering Educators to Advocate for Effective Programs | Diana Owen, Jamie Joseph, Naomi Rader, and Patrick McSweeney

The Cumberland County Civics Club: A Pioneering Model for Youth Civic Engagement | Austin Trantham

Transfer Pathways to Political Science: Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Program Guide | Kerri Ryer

Interviews

5 Rs of OER, OER-engaged Pedagogy, Localizing a Transparent AI Logic, and Futures of Conversating Books: An Interview with David Wiley

Reviews

Beyond the Ivory Tower—How Philip Cohen’s Citizen Scholar Changed My Thinking, and Why It Matters Now

Carter Moulton. 2025. ANALOG Inspiration card deck

Back Matter

Announcements, Copyright Policy, Submission Policy

The Political Science Educator is a publication of the APSA Organized Section on Political Science Education. Copyright 2024, American Political Science Association. All rights reserved.

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