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Teaching and Learning Projects led by Group members include

·         PREPOL: Developing a pre-entry and initial guidance package for the study of Politics and International Relations: aims to improve pre-entry and initial guidance to prospective Politics and IR students. A key project output is the Politics and You website.

 

·         Scholarship of Engagement for Politics: aims to give students experience of the practice of politics through the provision of placements.

 

·         Teaching Citizenship in Higher Education: aims to develop attractive and user-friendly teaching and learning activities to promote reflection amongst politics students on the nature of citizenship.

 

·          Research Training Consortium: aims to deliver a high quality research training program to postgraduates using an interactive multi-media package.

 

·         Case Based Learning in Politics: aims to develop problem-based case studies for use in politics

 

·         Innovations in Teaching and Learning in Politics: Short film covering the five FDTL politics projects and the work of the teaching and learning group, launched at the House of Lords in 2008.

 

·         It's Good to Talk: Feedback, Dialogue and Learning: a 2010-2012 project aiming to develop more effective means of providing feedback on assessed work to students of Politics and IR

 

 




  • Other Groups and Organisations
     

    ·         BLT: The BISA Learning and Teaching Working Group

     

    ·         C-SAP: Higher Education Academy's Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics.

     

    ·         PSAI Teaching and Learning Specialist Group - The teaching and learning group of the Political Studies Association of Ireland.

     

    ·         American Political Science Association - Teaching and Learning Conference pages.


    Teaching and Learning Journals focusing on Politics and Social Sciences

     

    ·         ELiSS: Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences - online and free access

     

    ·         LATISS: Learning and Teaching -The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences


    Other Resources

     

    ·         Homepage of Penny Welch - lots of politics teaching and learning resources.

     

    ·         Social Science and the Higher Skills Agenda - blog by John Craig focusing on employer engagement, employability and Foundation Degrees.