Teaching Political Science to Undergraduates: Active Pedagogy for the Microchip Mind

Laure Paquette

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2015

Teaching Political Science to Undergraduates

Active Pedagogy for the Microchip Mind

Laure Paquette

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110450552

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About this book

By 2020, half of the world’s population and most university students will have a supercomputer in their pockets. This revolution will affect the way students respond to higher education. The university classroom must henceforth engage students, and the classic lecture format alone might not be enough to do so. This book answers the question how university students can learn in the classroom what they cannot learn in any other way.
The answer is inspired by options that are not available to political scientists – in the way that they are in the laboratories for the sciences, in the performances for the live arts, and in the studios for visual arts – as well as ideas that are already present, but not widespread in the discipline: problem-solving and case studies, as in the professional schools, and simulation exercises in many other disciplines. This book proposes therefore an active pedagogy for political science, at a time when active pedagogy is more important than ever.
Prof. Laure Paquette, PhD, has been a visiting researcher or professor in 23 countries. She has advised several foreign governments as well as her own, Canada, and has published extensively in four languages. This is her sixteenth book.

Active pedagogy, Political Science, higher education

Author / Editor information

Prof. Laure Paquette, Ph.D., Department of Political Science at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Part I: Case studies
Excursus: Overview and Instructions for Worksheets Publicly Available Download PDF	2
1 Introductory Exercise – in the Decision-Maker’s Shoes Publicly Available Download PDF	9
2 Case Study in Political Philosophy: the Allegory of the Cave Publicly Available Download PDF	10
3 Case Studies in Comparative Politics Publicly Available Download PDF	20
4 Case Study in Public Policy and Administration Publicly Available Download PDF	35
5 Case Studies in International Relations Publicly Available Download PDF	42
Part II: Simulations And Exercises
Excursus: The Overview Worksheet Publicly Available Download PDF	61
1 Political Philosophy Publicly Available Download PDF	64
2 Role-Play Simulations for Comparative Politics Publicly Available Download PDF	68
3 Simulations for International Relations Publicly Available Download PDF	84
4 Public Policy and Administration Simulation Publicly Available Download PDF	111
5 Conclusions and Limitations Publicly Available Download PDF	119
List of Resources Publicly Available Download PDF	121
Appendix: List of Blank Worksheets Used in Part I and Part II Publicly Available Download PDF	122
Bibliography Publicly Available Download PDF	147
Index Publicly Available Download PDF	153

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: University/College level instructors of Political Science
Pages
- Main content: 154
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
- Tables: 22
Keywords: active pedagogy; political science; teaching and learning; university; higher education; case study; role-play

eBook

Published: January 15, 2016
ISBN: 9783110450552

Hardcover

Published: January 15, 2016
ISBN: 9783110450545