Teaching Global IR: Pedagogical Tools for Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Teaching Global IR: Pedagogical Tools for Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Published: May 28, 2024
Contributor: Alise Coen
License: CC BY NC SA 4.0 license – Allows revisions and additions but forbids commercial use.

I created this resource to offer a series of sample modules, discussion prompts, and assignments that can inspire ideas for elevating global and cross-cultural perspectives and decentering the United States in International Relations (IR) courses among US-based undergraduate students. Some themes across the resource materials include:

• Encouraging critical thinking around the dominant paradigms and approaches in IR
• Questioning the foundations of Western/non-Western binaries
• Engaging with cross-cultural perspectives and Self/Other categorizations
• Fostering awareness around which voices and actors become elevated and marginalized in IR

The options in the resource offer a flexible “choose your own path” approach for instructors who might wish to include some or all of the materials in creating components of syllabi or brainstorming class exercises, assignments, and discussion topics. The materials which are open access in the modules (at the time of writing) are hyperlinked. The discussion prompts and assignments can be adapted to online, hybrid, or in-person modalities.

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