"Quo Vadis Active Learning? Innovative Teaching in the Political Science Classroom"

Date

Thursday January 26, 2023
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

The Department of Political Studies' Winter 2023 Speaker Series Presents:

Michael Murphy, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow - ¾ÅŠćÖ±²„

"Quo Vadis Active Learning?  Innovative Teaching in the Political Science Classroom"

Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 2:30-4:00 PM

Dunning Hall Room 11, 94 University Avenue, Kingston

Light refreshments will be served!

Michael Murphy is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Studies at ¾ÅŠćÖ±²„. 

Abstract:  The scholarship of teaching and learning in politics and international relations (SoTL-P&IR) has grown rapidly in the last quarter-century, with new conferences, journals, and book series opening space for pedagogical conversations that are immediately relevant to the fields. Reviews of this body of research indicates that ā€œactive learningā€ is one of the foremost topics under consideration, including simulations and games, debates and discussions, in-person and online collaboration, and small-group activities. ā€œQuo Vadis Active Learning?ā€ presents an analysis of how active learning has grown in political science from League of Nations simulations in Harvard in the 1920s to online collaborations during the COVID-19 pandemic, including results from a systematic review of all SoTL-P&IR articles published from 2000-2019 (forthcoming in International Politics), and shares preliminary findings from a Banting-funded survey on assessment and evaluation in political science education. The presentation further explores emerging topics of interest that will structure disciplinary debates in SoTL-P&IR over the coming years, including experiential learning, equitable and inclusive course design, hybrid or mixed-modality learning, learning spaces, and assessment and evaluation in a post-ChatGPT world.