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Carah Ong Whaley; Dena Pastor; Abraham Goldberg – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2024
Mandated under Article 1, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, the decennial census determines the distribution of power and resources based upon population counts. College students are a hard-to-count population with limited knowledge about why the census matters and how to complete it. Politics and the global health pandemic made the…
Descriptors: Census Figures, College Students, Citizen Participation, Civics
Lauren S. Foley; Marty P. Jordan – Journal of Political Science Education, 2024
Decades of scholarship on teaching and learning affirm the benefits of public service internships on student learning outcomes. Studies emphasize how hands-on fieldwork can increase students' substantive knowledge, political efficacy, trust in government, and civic participation, among other factors. However, most articles treat internships…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Public Service, Service Learning, Citizenship Education
Kartal, Mert – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
What is the role of Model United Nations (MUN) in facilitating deep learning and professional skills attainment in the classroom? Using a 15-week MUN course, I gather data on student progress in four levels of knowledge: factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive. I use pre- and post-activity surveys as well as the instructor's own…
Descriptors: International Relations, Political Science, College Instruction, Job Skills
Ekström, Linda; Lundholm, Cecilia – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
In this article, we report findings of students' conceptions of values and impartiality in political science teaching in relation to research on epistemic beliefs. This field of research concerns students' beliefs about the nature of knowledge in different disciplines; beliefs that are central to learning disciplinary knowledge. Interviews were…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Political Science, Teaching Methods, Epistemology
David C. Powell – Teaching Public Administration, 2024
Public administration has a long tradition of close connections to the field of political science. As the field of public administration evolved from a basic politics administration dichotomy, it became evident that the distinction between politics and administration was nebulous at best. As such, public affairs students need exposure to, and…
Descriptors: United States Government (Course), Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes, Introductory Courses
Jansa, Joshua M.; Ringsmuth, Eve M. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2022
Introduction to American Government is a foundational general education course meant to promote understanding of democracy and students' ability to participate in it. But, there is substantial variation in how the course is structured: it can enroll anywhere from a dozen students to hundreds; it can be delivered online, face-to-face, or in hybrid…
Descriptors: Political Science, Self Efficacy, Knowledge Level, United States Government (Course)
Thornton, Stephen – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2019
Information literacy, the concept most associated with inculcating the attributes necessary to behave in a strategic, thoughtful and ethical manner in the face of a superfluity of information, has been part of the information specialist scene for many years. As the United Kingdom's QAA benchmark statements for Politics and International Relations…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Longitudinal Studies, International Relations, Political Science
Schuhen, Michael; Hundhausen, Andreas – Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 2020
In the Federal Republic of Germany, the cities and municipalities decide which streets are being refurbished, which educational services are offered, or where sewers will be laid. The cities and municipalities have financial resources at their disposal for this purpose. However, these resources are, with a view to Rhineland-Palatinate,…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Citizenship Education, Public Officials, Decision Making
Matto, Elizabeth C.; Chmielewski, Randi – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
Efforts to teach civic engagement address not only students' political knowledge but also their skills and dispositions. Although the scholarship of teaching and learning has explored the role of political discussion in the pre-college classroom extensively, attention to the topic at the college-level has been limited. Given the challenges…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, College Freshmen, Political Science, Knowledge Level
Lenoir, Brandon W. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
This article outlines a semester-long advocacy project that walks students through the steps to develop a successful advocacy campaign, culminating in a trip to the state capitol to "lobby" legislators. The manuscript provides faculty with the basic structure for the project and suggests gradable assignments. The project builds on the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods, Learning Theories
Williams, Ryan J.; Chergosky, Anthony J. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2019
This article describes various iterations of a Supreme Court simulation that we developed for undergraduate political science classes. We address when simulations should be used to introduce a topic to students, and when simulations should be used to develop students' understanding of a topic after introducing it. In the simulations, we played the…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Simulation, Political Science, Teaching Methods
Giles, Matt; Pines, Rachyl; Giles, Howard – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper expands the theoretical base of intergroup and intercultural communication by testing a new communication model of interdependence (CMII), defined in terms of the embedded nature of groups Giles, M., R. Pines, H. Giles, and A. Gardikiotis. 2018. "Towards a Communication Model of Intergroup Interdependence." Atlantic Journal of…
Descriptors: Intergroup Relations, Intercultural Communication, International Relations, Language Attitudes
Çavdar, Gamze; Yasar, Yavuz; Fisk, Jonathan – Journal of Political Science Education, 2019
Previous research has discussed the difficulty of teaching topics related to the Middle East. In our experience, one reason for this difficulty is that students are strongly biased with respect to these topics. This research attempts to systematically identify these biases through surveys and then test the effectiveness of targeted lectures that…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Social Bias, Middle Eastern History
Suntana, Ija; Tresnawaty, Betty – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to describe the influence of political knowledge on the political behavior of highly educated Muslim society in addressing political issues. This research used cohort-based quantitative method through data collection, interviews, and documentation. To collect information from respondents, this research used…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Factors, Political Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Perbandt, Daniela; Heinelt, Marie-Sophie; Bacelar-Nicolau, Paula; Mapar, Mahsa; Caeiro, Sandra Sofia – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Distance universities are of great importance for establishing sustainability literacy, as they operate as multipliers for thousands of students. However, despite several advantages of e-learning environments compared to traditional class-teaching, there are still challenges regarding suitable e-learning tools and didactical models. The…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication
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