Latest PSA TLG e-bulletin 22th March 2015
Welcome to the PSA Teaching and Learning Group e:Bulletin for March 2015.
In this issues:
· PSA Teaching and Learning Conference 2015
· PSA Annual Conference 2015
· IPED 2015 Update – nearly 2,000 papers on Teaching and Learning in Politics
· Just Published Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations
· APSA Teaching and Learning 2016
· ALPS Simulation and Games Index
· Access to European Political Science Free in March
For further information on the group, please visit our website at: https://sites.google.com/site/psatlg/Home
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PSA Teaching and Learning Conference 2015
We are currently working with colleagues at the University of Lincoln on arrangements for the PSA Teaching and Learning conference for 2015 and aim to publish the call for papers and details on the date, shortly after Easter.
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PSA Annual Conference 2015
If you are attending the PSA conference in Sheffield next week there are two teaching and learning panels on the agenda.
Developments in Teaching and Learning
Town Hall - Committee Room
Wednesday 1st April 09:00 - 10:30Panel
Chair: Dr Stephen Thornton (Cardiff University)
Papers:
The pedagogy of democratic reading and writing: Danielle Allen's Our Declaration as teaching-led research -Dr Pete Woodcock (University of Huddersfield)
Learning Politics and International Relations Through Game Production - Dr Frands Pedersen (University of Westminster)
Including student mobility into the Politics curriculum: what works, what doesn't, why do it? - Dr Rose Gann & Dr Matthew Ashton (Nottingham Trent University)
An Audit of Transferable Skills Teaching in UK Politics Departments -
Principal author: Dr Alistair Clark & Tristan Martin (Newcastle University)
Roundtable: Revisiting the QAA Politics and International Relations Benchmark Statements
Town Hall - Committee Room 3Time
Wednesday 1st April 11:00 - 12:
Chair: Dr Stephen Thornton (Cardiff University)
The panel will be discussing the recent update to the Politics and International Relations benchmark statement – which can be accessed at: http://www.qaa.ac.uk/publications/information-and-guidance/publication?PubID=2913
Panel Members:
Dr Jacqueline Briggs (University of Lincoln)
Dr John Craig (Higher Education Academy)
Dr Lisa Harrison (University of the West of England)
Full conference programme at: http://www.psa.ac.uk/conference/2015-conference/schedule
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IPED 2015 Update – nearly 2,000 papers on Teaching and Learning in Politics
The International Political Education Database is hosted on the PSA Teaching and Learning Group website and, with the most recent update, now contains even more references to peer reviewed articles on teaching and learning.
It includes details of 122 new articles published in 2014 and a new category for articles on teaching about terrorism. There have also been further updates to older material and IPED now includes at least one paper published in each year since 1965.
IPED is published on a creative commons licence and can be accessed at:
https://sites.google.com/site/psatlg/Home/resources/journal-articles
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Just Published Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations
Edward Elgar has recently published the Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations. Edited by John Ishiyama, William J. Miller and Eszter Simon, it includes 37 chapters from authors in the US, UK and Europe.
Further details (including full list of content) can be accessed at:
http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?currency=US&id=15478
You can also preview before you by on Google Books:
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APSA Teaching and Learning 2016
The American Political Science Association has announced the date and location for their teaching and learning. It will be on February 12-14, 2016 in Portland, Oregon. More details to follow at: http://www.apsanet.org/TLC
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ALPS Simulation and Games Index
The ALPS (Active Learning in Political Science) blog has published a Simulation and Games Index.
It includes categories for Comparative / International / Global, American Government, Political Economy and Methods, along with other areas.
It can be accessed at: https://activelearningps.wordpress.com/simulation-index/
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Access to European Political Science Free in March
The journal European Political Science is offering free access to papers in March 2015. EPS includes a significant number of teaching and learning papers including two symposiums based on PSA panels organised by this group. Access details below:
Teaching Politics: Beyond the Classroom
Volume 11, Issue 2 (June 2012)
Steven Curtis, David Bates, Clodagh Harris and Annabel Kiernan
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/eps/journal/v11/n2/index.html
E-Learning in Politics
Volume 9, Issue 1 (March 2010)
Dave Middleton; Jason Ralph, Naomi Head and Simon Lightfoot; and Pete Woodcock and Glenn Duckworth
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