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Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations
Edited by John Ishiyama, William J. Miller and Eszter Simon
With a focus on providing concrete teaching strategies for scholars, the Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations blends both theory and practice in an accessible and clear manner. In an effort to help faculty excel as classroom teachers, the expert contributors offer representation from various types of institutions located throughout the world. Split into three distinct parts, this book discusses curriculum and course design, teaching subject areas and in class teaching techniques.
Handbook
- Published in print:
- 27 Mar 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781782548478
- eISBN:
- 9781782548485
- Pages:
- c 512
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- Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Best practices in the American undergraduate political science curriculum
- Chapter 2: Capstone courses and senior seminars as culminating experiences in undergraduate political science education
- Chapter 3: Teaching politics to practitioners
- Chapter 4: Best practices in professional development in graduate education
- Chapter 5: Distance and online course design
- Chapter 6: Student and civic engagement: cultivating the skills, efficacy and identities that increase student involvement in learning and in public life
- Chapter 7: Curricular and program assessment techniques in the USA
- Chapter 8: Performance assessment in Europe
- Chapter 9: Course-based assessment and student feedback
- Chapter 10: Multidisciplinary approaches to teaching political science
- Chapter 11: Promoting information literacy and information research
- Chapter 12: Internationalization of the curriculum (Bologna Process)
- Chapter 13: Promoting employability and jobs skills via the political science curriculum
- Chapter 14: After the apocalypse: a simulation for Introduction to Politics classes
- Chapter 15: Teaching conflict and conflict resolution
- Chapter 16: Teaching about diversity issues
- Chapter 17: Teaching gender politics
- Chapter 18: Teaching graduate research methods
- Chapter 19: Teaching undergraduate research methods
- Chapter 20: Teaching political theory
- Chapter 21: Teaching controversial topics
- Chapter 22: Teaching at the community college: faculty role, responsibilities and pedagogical techniques
- Chapter 23: Teaching international relations
- Chapter 24: Effective syllabus design
- Chapter 25: Integrating technology into the classroom
- Chapter 26: War, peace and everything in between: simulations in international relations
- Chapter 27: Developing your own in-class simulations: design advice and a ‘commons’ simulation example
- Chapter 28: Group work in political science: how to get collaboration into the classroom
- Chapter 29: Designing team-based learning activities
- Chapter 30: Experiential education in political science and international relations
- Chapter 31: Best practices in Problem-Based Learning
- Chapter 32: Developing student scholars: best practices in promoting undergraduate research
- Chapter 33: Teaching international relations with film and literature: using non-traditional texts in the classroom
- Chapter 34: Promoting course based writing in the discipline
- Chapter 35: Best practices in undergraduate lecturing: how to make large classes work
- Chapter 36: Political science and the scholarship of teaching
- Chapter 37: Getting students to talk: best practices in promoting student discussion
- Index
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Chapter 1: Best practices in the American undergraduate political science curriculum
E. Fletcher McClellan
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- Published:
- 27 March 2015
- Pages:
- 3–15 (13 total)
Collection:
Social And Political Science 2015
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- Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Best practices in the American undergraduate political science curriculum
- Chapter 2: Capstone courses and senior seminars as culminating experiences in undergraduate political science education
- Chapter 3: Teaching politics to practitioners
- Chapter 4: Best practices in professional development in graduate education
- Chapter 5: Distance and online course design
- Chapter 6: Student and civic engagement: cultivating the skills, efficacy and identities that increase student involvement in learning and in public life
- Chapter 7: Curricular and program assessment techniques in the USA
- Chapter 8: Performance assessment in Europe
- Chapter 9: Course-based assessment and student feedback
- Chapter 10: Multidisciplinary approaches to teaching political science
- Chapter 11: Promoting information literacy and information research
- Chapter 12: Internationalization of the curriculum (Bologna Process)
- Chapter 13: Promoting employability and jobs skills via the political science curriculum
- Chapter 14: After the apocalypse: a simulation for Introduction to Politics classes
- Chapter 15: Teaching conflict and conflict resolution
- Chapter 16: Teaching about diversity issues
- Chapter 17: Teaching gender politics
- Chapter 18: Teaching graduate research methods
- Chapter 19: Teaching undergraduate research methods
- Chapter 20: Teaching political theory
- Chapter 21: Teaching controversial topics
- Chapter 22: Teaching at the community college: faculty role, responsibilities and pedagogical techniques
- Chapter 23: Teaching international relations
- Chapter 24: Effective syllabus design
- Chapter 25: Integrating technology into the classroom
- Chapter 26: War, peace and everything in between: simulations in international relations
- Chapter 27: Developing your own in-class simulations: design advice and a ‘commons’ simulation example
- Chapter 28: Group work in political science: how to get collaboration into the classroom
- Chapter 29: Designing team-based learning activities
- Chapter 30: Experiential education in political science and international relations
- Chapter 31: Best practices in Problem-Based Learning
- Chapter 32: Developing student scholars: best practices in promoting undergraduate research
- Chapter 33: Teaching international relations with film and literature: using non-traditional texts in the classroom
- Chapter 34: Promoting course based writing in the discipline
- Chapter 35: Best practices in undergraduate lecturing: how to make large classes work
- Chapter 36: Political science and the scholarship of teaching
- Chapter 37: Getting students to talk: best practices in promoting student discussion
- Index