9: Teaching and Learning in Political Science

Russell Mayer, Merrimack College, Russell.Mayer@merrimack.edu

The Teaching and Learning in Political Science division invites paper, panel, and roundtable proposals on topics related to both improving student learning in the discipline and enhancing how political science is taught. Proposals contributing to the scholarship of teaching and learning that are theoretically grounded and advance knowledge in the field, using either quantitative or qualitative analysis, are particularly encouraged. Proposals with an exclusively theoretical or best practices focus that have the potential to promote effective teaching and learning in the discipline will also be considered. Proposals may focus on the major issues in the field, including: promoting civic engagement, handling program assessment, incorporating diversity, inclusiveness, and inequality in the classroom, mentoring both undergraduate and graduate students, internationalizing the curriculum, teaching with technology, and using alternative pedagogies. Consistent with this year’s conference theme, proposals that in some way address how our teaching prepares students for the political realities of the times of economic stress in which we are living, and what kinds of learning goals, objectives, and approaches are most appropriate to these times are particularly welcomed.