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Call for Proposals: Teaching Comparative Politics

Published: March 21, 2024
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Application Deadline: April 28, 2024 The American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Teaching and Learning program is pleased to announce a call for proposals for a small cohort of political scientists to participate in a three-day teaching and learning symposium June 27-29 at APSA’s headquarters in Washington, DC. APSA’s teaching symposia provide a workshop environment where people with similar goals can come together to share their own practices and research related to teaching AND create new teaching resources for their courses.…

Engaging in Difficult Election Conversations: 2024 Edition

Published: March 6, 2024
Contributor:Carah Ong Whaley
Content Type:Teaching Material
2024 is shaping to be yet another divisive presidential election year. Elections can raise many emotions and we know they can affect learning. There are a range of strategies that can be pursued, from providing emotional support to individuals to connecting and engaging in constructive and mutually-reciprocal experiential activities in local communities. This guide focuses on supporting individuals to engage in constructive conversations around the 2024 Elections, regardless of the outcomes. It includes some considerations, ideas, tips, and resources for…

Learning Module: How Elections Are Run

Published: March 6, 2024
Contributor:Carah Ong Whaley
Content Type:Teaching Material
This learning module provides resources and experiential learning ideas for engaging young people in election administration. Election administration plays a central role in ensuring the legitimacy of the electoral process and outcomes. Subverting faith and trust in elections undermines the foundations of democracy. Research has shown that technical improvements to electoral administration can improve voter perceptions of elections being fair, but that there are limits to what election administration reforms alone can achieve (Bowler et. al 2015). As we prepare…

Practical Politics: Lessons in Power and Democracy

Published: February 22, 2024
Contributor:Titus Alexander
Content Type:Teaching Material
This guide to teaching and learning for democracy aims to help students and teachers develop non-partisan education for practical politics: Part 1 makes the case for politics as a public good and means of social problem-solving that is difficult and can become more effective through education; Part 2 analyses the exercise of power in business, media and government, including the role of office politics and a detailed analysis of the nature of power Part 3 is a guide to teaching…

Political IdentiTree: How social identities provide a lens to understand who we are how they impact our political actions

Published: February 22, 2024
Contributor:Carah Ong Whaley
Content Type:Teaching Material
This resource can be used to facilitate conversations about how social identities provide a lens to understand who we are how they impact our political actions.

Open Pedagogy: Charting the Potential to Co-create Non-disposable Objects with Students in Your Classes

Published: February 12, 2024
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Political Science Educator: volume 27, issue 2 Interview This interview is the third installment in a Q&A series focused on education and politics. Matt Evans, Professor of Political Science at Northwest Arkansas Community College, interviewed Jamie Witman, the Open Educational Practices Specialist at the Open Education Network[1], about open pedagogy. The concept of open pedagogy centers on students co-creating knowledge with faculty and moving away from disposable assignments (that hold no importance other than achieving the immediate learning objective); the…

Comparing Various Technologies to Encourage Undergraduate Student Participation

Published: February 12, 2024
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Political Science Educator: volume 27, issue 2 Reflections By Elizabeth Dorssom (DorssomE@lincolnu.edu) Encouraging course participation among undergraduate students can be one of the most difficult yet rewarding aspects of teaching. There are a variety of reasons that many undergraduate students are less inclined to engage in class discussions, including, but not limited to, nervousness to engage, the feeling that their opinions are not as well-developed as their peers and being from a marginalized group (Addy et al. 2021; Aguillon et.…

Announcements Spring/Winter 2024

Published: February 12, 2024
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Member Announcements   Victor Asal published “The Use of Popular Songs and Cartoons in Teaching Introduction to International Relations and Comparative Politics” in International Studies Perspectives (with Inga Miller and Andrew Vitek)   Elizabeth A. Bennion was selected to receive the Roland Kelly Award – an award presented annually during the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Service Recognition Breakfast by the Mayor of South Bend. The Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation of St. Joseph County established the award in…

Reflections on Teaching International Relations and Zombies in a Post-zombie World

Published: February 12, 2024
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Political Science Educator: volume 27, issue 2 Reflections By Kristen Rosero (roserok@wit.edu) Zombies used to be a fun way for me to teach International Relations. Now, I’m not so sure. For some context, I teach political science at a polytechnic institution where none of my students are political science majors. This has always presented both a challenge and an opportunity for me. The challenge is often getting them interested in the material and seeing its broader value. The opportunity is…

Student Engagement and Campus Interviews

Published: February 12, 2024
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Political Science Educator: volume 27, issue 2 Reflections By Ryan Gibb (ryan.gibb@bakeru.edu) Cultivating an engaged public is at least part of the responsibility of university professors. As such, it is necessary to help to connect students with their political environments. Politics is salient in students’ lives, but as an academic subject it can be alienating. Rationally, students invest their time in things that interest them (their careers, their relationships, their hobbies). In this way, students are much like adults. However,…
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