Teaching Politics and International Relations

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Teaching and Learning in Politics: Thinking about Teaching Politics Revisited....Pages 9-21
What (if Anything) is Different about Teaching and Learning in Politics?....Pages 22-37
Can Politics Be Benchmarked?....Pages 38-50
Enhancing Politics Teaching through Active Learning....Pages 51-64
Teaching Politics to Small Groups....Pages 65-77
How Relevant are Other Ways to Learn?....Pages 78-90
Issues and Controversies Associated with the Use of New Technologies....Pages 91-104
Developing Assessment Practices in Politics....Pages 105-122
The Importance of Being Theoretical: Analysing Contemporary Politics....Pages 123-131
Teaching Politics and Political Bias....Pages 132-145
Contemporary Politics: Using the ‘F’ Word and Teaching Gender in International Relations....Pages 146-161
Contemporary Politics: Teaching the ‘Contested Concepts’ – International Terrorism Taught to Undergraduate Students in a Multicultural Environment....Pages 162-178
Teaching Race and Ethnicity: Towards an Engaged, Anti-Racist Pedagogy....Pages 179-197
Developing Research Literacy in Students....Pages 198-209
Supervising a Doctoral Student....Pages 210-225
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Student: Supervising Students You Rarely See....Pages 226-235
From Politics Past to Politics Future: Addressing the Employability Agenda through a Professional Politics Curriculum....Pages 236-254
Back Matter....Pages 255-260