TY - JOUR
T1 - Forum on Pedagogy
T2 - The Introductory Course in International Relations: Regional Variations
AU - Frueh, Jamie
AU - Diehl, Paul F.
AU - Li, Xiaoting
AU - Gokcek, Gigi
AU - Kalpakian, Jack
AU - Vlcek, William
AU - Bower, Adam
AU - Espinoza, Rau´l Salgado
AU - Carranco, Santiago
AU - De Matos-Ala, Jacqui
AU - Behera, Navnita Chadha
AU - Acharya, Amitav
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/5/1
Y1 - 2021/5/1
N2 - This forum explores how societal contexts affect how instructors teach introductory undergraduate courses in international relations (IR), global politics, and international studies. Contributors teach at universities in China, Ecuador, India, Morocco, South Africa, the United Kingdom-Scotland, and the United States. Because instructors vary the structure, content, and pedagogical approaches in their courses (and perhaps most in their introductory courses) to account for their students' backgrounds, conditions, and paradigms, the discipline can learn about contemporary global patterns by putting regionally diverse pedagogical approaches in conversation with each other. A concluding essay explores emergent patterns of a global IR and sets up points for further conversation. The authors hope sharing their pedagogical strategies will inspire instructors to devote the creativity necessary to improve how they teach introductory IR courses in their own societal contexts.
AB - This forum explores how societal contexts affect how instructors teach introductory undergraduate courses in international relations (IR), global politics, and international studies. Contributors teach at universities in China, Ecuador, India, Morocco, South Africa, the United Kingdom-Scotland, and the United States. Because instructors vary the structure, content, and pedagogical approaches in their courses (and perhaps most in their introductory courses) to account for their students' backgrounds, conditions, and paradigms, the discipline can learn about contemporary global patterns by putting regionally diverse pedagogical approaches in conversation with each other. A concluding essay explores emergent patterns of a global IR and sets up points for further conversation. The authors hope sharing their pedagogical strategies will inspire instructors to devote the creativity necessary to improve how they teach introductory IR courses in their own societal contexts.
KW - global IR
KW - introductory courses
KW - pedagogy
KW - regions
KW - teaching and learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106704724&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/isp/ekaa009
DO - 10.1093/isp/ekaa009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85106704724
SN - 1528-3577
VL - 22
SP - 125
EP - 159
JO - International Studies Perspectives
JF - International Studies Perspectives
IS - 2
ER -