PSE Editors Reading List

APSA Educate published this curated reading list in the summer of 2020 to celebrate the establishment of our partnership with the Political Science Education Organized Section of the American Political Science Association. Below we highlight some of the PSE’s best work in ways that represent the this organized sections intellectual heritage and key debates, while remaining useful to today’s educators. The resources are organized into five tables:

Fostering Student Engagement
Civic Engagement
Innovative Approaches to Core Courses
The Science of Teaching & Learning
The Discipline & Professional Development

Please direct any questions about this list, or about Educate’s partnership with The Political Science Education Organized Section to educate@apsanet.org. APSA Educate welcomes partnerships with additional Organized Sections. Return to the PSE landing page.

1. Fostering Student Engagement

Title	Author(s)	Original Date
Teaching Together: Expanding the Classroom Curriculum through Small-Group Student Presentations	Meena Bose	Summer 2019
Pillars of Support: Six Tips for Faculty Advising Undergraduate Honors Theses	Jessica Candela	Fall 2017
To Assess Civic Learning Outcomes, Start with Your Desired Results	Elizabeth A. Bennion	Fall 2017
The Writer’s Workshop: A Solution for Better Writing and Learning	Adam Irish	Spring 2012
Pedagogy: The Exploration and Utility of “Probabilities Pondering”	Emmanuel C. Nwagboso	April 2006
Fostering Student Learning for Everyone on Presentation Day: How to Move Beyond Daydreaming and Friendship	Alison Rios Millett McCartney	April 2006
Encouraging Reading and Discussion in Upper-Level Coursework	Maria Rost Rublee	December 2006
Optimizing Class Participation	Nancy E. Wright	December 2005

2. Civic Engagement

Title	Author(s)	Date
Civic Education: Information Evaluation, Political Deliberation and Critical Thinking at a Federal Courthouse	Nattawan Junboonta	Spring 2019
Before Creating an Assessment Plan, Consider What You Want to Assess: Assessing Political Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, and Identity	Elizabeth A. Bennion	Spring 2019
Hosting A Civic Leadership Academy on Your Campus	Elizabeth A. Bennion	Summer 2018
Collaborating with Graduate Students to Enhance Civic Engagement: Lessons from Organizing an Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion	Georgia Nilsson, et al.	Summer 2016
Rethinking Internships to Maximize Student Learning	Elizabeth A. Bennion	Summer 2016
Using Internships to Promote Student Learning: An Annotated Bibliography	Elizabeth A. Bennion Xander E. Laughlin	Summer 2016
From the Classroom to the TV Studio: A New Approach to Civic Education	Elizabeth A. Bennion	Spring 2014
RU Ready -‐ Extending Political Learning Outside the Classroom and into the Community	Elizabeth Matto	Fall 2014
Shaping Private Spiritedness? Lessons About Citizenship from Service Learning and the Fifth Grade	Lanethea Mathews-Gardner	April 2007

3. Innovative Approaches to Core Courses

Title	Author(s)	Original Date
International Perspectives on American Politics: An Online Collaboration	Anita Chadha	Spring 2019
Literature, Politics…and Leadership?: Designing a Political Theory Course on “Literature and Politics” to Include Principles of Democratic Leadership	Katherine M. Robiadek	Summer 2018
Learn by doing: A bill passage simulation for Intro to American Politics students	Renée Van Vechten	Summer 2018
American Teacher: Adventures in the Classroom and Our Nation’s Capitol	Douglas Graney	Fall 2017
AFTERSHOCK: Designing an Educational Board Game	Rex Brynen	Spring 2014
Classroom Innovation with “The Hunger Games”	Bruce Martin	Spring 2014
Using Presidential Daily Diaries as an Instructional Tool	Frank Franz	Spring 2014
Making it Work: Teaching Political Theory as a Toolbox	Michael Laurence	Fall 2014
Emerson and Douglass in the Political Science Classroom	Shyam K. Sriram	Fall 2013
“Experimenting with an Embedded Librarian in an American Government Class”	Shyam K. Sriram and Amelia Glawe	Spring 2013
Political Theory, Museum Studies, and Pedagogy	Ellen Grigsby	Spring 2011
Constitutional Engineers: Using Problem Based Learning in Comparative Politics	John Ishiyama	February 2007
Developing Global Citizenship: Introducing a Teaching Toolkit	Henrike Lehnguth Jenny Wüstenberg	December 2006
Developing Analytical Tools in Introductory International Politics Classes: Different Perspectives are not for Entertainment Purposes	Mark Sachleben	December 2006
Teaching American Politics: The Politics of Incorporating Multicultural Highlights Into a Traditional Curriculum	Gus Jones, Jr. Michelle G. Briscoe	April 2006
Transformation and Assessment of the Introductory International Relations Course	Scott Erb	August 2006

4. The Science of Teaching & Learning

Title	Author(s)	Original Date
Getting Involved in Research on Teaching and Learning at a Large Research University: A Case Study	Kenneth W. Foster	February 2008
Getting Started With SOTL	Jeffrey L. Bernstein John Ishiyama	April 2006
Applying Good Research Technique to Questions on Student Learning	Jeffrey L. Bernstein	December 2005

5. The Discipline & Professional Development

Title	Author(s)	Original Date
Rethinking the Undergraduate Political Science Major	John Ishiyama	Spring 2019
JPSE Seeks Reviews	Cherie Strachan	Spring 2019
Changes to the Journal of Political Science Education	Victor Asal	Winter 2017
Making Time for Research at a Teaching Institution	Elizabeth A. Bennion	Fall 2015