APSA Educating & Studying Symposium
Name for proposals: De-Centering america within the International Politics Classroom
16.-17. and 22 February 2024
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The American Political Science Affiliation’s (APSA) Educating and Studying Program is happy to announce a name for proposals for a small group of political scientists to take part in a three-day digital educating and studying symposium in February 2024.
APSA’s educating and studying symposia present a workshop setting the place folks with related targets can come collectively to share their very own practices associated to educating and create educating sources for APSA Schooling. This symposium might be chaired by Amy L. Atchison (Center Tennessee State College) and Fashions and (Denison College), the theme of this symposium is De-Centering america within the International Politics Classroom. The applying deadline is 7 January 2024.
The purpose of the symposium
The purpose of the symposium is threefold:
- To offer an inclusive area the place members can construct supportive relationships with different teacher-scholars educating programs on international politics and points;
- To current and focus on class actions, readings, or assignments that decenter america in international politics by introducing non-American and intercultural views on international politics to college students; and
- Contributing academic sources to a group on international politics to be shared on APSA Educate.
Candidates should have expertise educating international politics to undergraduate or graduate college students. This consists of, however is just not restricted to, worldwide relations/politics and comparative politics programs. We invite functions from political science school in any respect levels of their careers, from a variety of establishments, together with universities and two- and four-year schools. Superior graduate college students are inspired to use.
Attainable matters or course strategies embrace, however usually are not restricted to:
- simulations/video games/energetic studying workouts
- readings and the way you incorporate them (readings could embrace: open academic sources, multimedia sources, public scholarship, weblog posts, and many others.)
- on-line instruments and actions
- strategies/instruments that decenter the US in international politics and/or introduce intercultural consciousness and understanding
Tentative Program for Digital Symposium
- Friday 16 February and Saturday 17 February: Roughly 4-5 hour classes for particular person displays and dialogue
- 17.-22. February: small teams work with sources in their very own time.
- Thursday, February 22: an roughly 2-3 hour session to share group sources and supply suggestions.
- A precise schedule might be shared as soon as members are chosen. Precise occasions might be chosen to greatest accommodate choose members’ time zones, however are sometimes Jap Time Zone afternoons.
16 and 17 February
Throughout the first two days, the members current their very own pedagogical strategies/instruments/workouts. It might be present sources that you simply wish to share with others, or a brand new approach that you really want suggestions on that can assist you develop it additional. The displays are brief, permitting for vital group dialogue in a workshop-style ambiance.
17-22 February
All through the week, groups will work to construct your sources to revamp the classroom. People can develop and adapt sources they already use or develop totally new ones. Groups are fashioned in the course of the symposium, based mostly on the pursuits of the members. Every workforce then decides what sort of useful resource they wish to produce (eg in-class apply, simulation, social media initiatives).
February 22
Teams current their new/revised sources and obtain suggestions on their sources, which they full after this ultimate group assembly.
The ensuing educating sources are disseminated by way of APSA Educate, the political science digital educating useful resource library. As well as, members could select to submit weblog posts to be featured in APSA Educate relating to their contribution to the symposium and what they’ve realized and developed from interacting with different members. Symposium members come away from the occasion with new insights into educating and analysis of their subject, with concrete educating sources that they’ll use in their very own programs.
Utility particulars
The applying deadline is 7 January 2024. Proposals needs to be submitted on-line and consists of:
- Current CV, together with data on educating expertise
- 250-word summary summarizing the useful resource or matter you intend to current on the symposium
- 250 phrase description of your motivation and targets for taking part within the symposium
Profitable candidates might be notified in mid-January. Course registration charges ($35) might be paid on-line prematurely of the workshop. For extra data, see our steadily requested questions and/or contact ondusning@apsanet.org or Michelle Allendoerfer with any questions. Please see a printable model of the decision for proposals right here.
