10. Political Science Education

Carolyn Shaw, Wichita State University, carolyn.shaw@wichita.edu

This division welcomes proposals for panels, papers, and posters that address education in political science from a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches.  Examples of relevant topics include but are not limited to pedagogical analysis, assessment of student learning, contemporary trends in undergraduate and graduate education and research.  Proposals that address the program theme of “Categories and the Politics of Global Inequalities” are especially welcome. Such proposals might explore the way structural inequalities in educational institutions result in unjust outcomes, the way patterns of inequality operate in the academic framework, different ways of addressing the topic of inequality in the classroom, and ways of assessing and addressing inequality in the classroom.

Conference organizers encourage conference participants to engage in conversations beyond the customary disciplinary territory, and welcome panels that include practitioners, activists, and inter-disciplinary scholars.  In addressing issues of "Categories and Global Inequalities" as they apply to education, panels might include librarians as well as administrators.

The Political Science Education section is strongly committed to honoring the diversity of institutions with which APSA members are associated and we welcome submissions from political scientists at community colleges and two-year colleagues as well as four-year colleges and universities.