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Mattlin, Mikael – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
This article explores the hidden educational potential in the board game "Diplomacy." While commonly recognized as a good low-cost negotiation simulation and a useful teaching platform, the original game version over-emphasizes the conflictual nature of international relations and presents an image of international relations that is not…
Descriptors: Political Science, Teaching Methods, Educational Games, International Relations
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Smith, Hayden J.; Michelsen, Niall – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
The Statecraft IR simulation has received a significant amount of attention in the pedagogical literature. Some instructors have asserted that Statecraft is biased toward the behavior and learning goals of realism, calling into question the utility of the simulation as a teaching tool. Using thirteen iterations of the simulation we empirically…
Descriptors: International Relations, Political Science, Teaching Methods, Teamwork
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James, Patrick – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
This study brings together insights from the Science Education Initiative with a new course, "Spy Novel Diplomacy: Propaganda and International Relations," which has been taught as a General Education Seminar for first year students. The class will continue on an annual basis from the spring semester of 2020 onward. Thus what follows is…
Descriptors: National Security, Novels, Foreign Policy, Science Education
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Jonker, Anita – Education as Change, 2021
This article explores first-year Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) students' multilingual practices in a university course where students have access to professionally translated technical terminology of the subject field. The study examines whether multilingual technical terminology--embedded in a dialogic teaching model--can contribute to…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Educational Change, Translation, Second Languages
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Kaftan, Joanna; Linantud, John – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
This article utilizes the online world politics simulation Statecraft to examine how students perceive the influence of simulations on their political ideologies as well as their expectations about behavior and outcomes within the constraints of a virtual world. This paper does not evaluate learning outcomes or student understanding of class…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Student Attitudes, International Relations, Political Science
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Cox, Eric – Journal of Political Science Education, 2021
This paper presents results from a comparative analysis of two sections of Introduction to International Politics, one of which used a traditional research paper as a supplemental assignment and one that used the Statecraft online simulation. Both sections were taught during the same semester and used common lecture notes, PowerPoint slides, exam…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Foreign Policy, International Relations, Political Science
Arshad, Muminah; Dada, Rachel; Elliott, Cathy; Kalinowska, Iweta; Khan, Mehreen; Lipinski, Robert; Vassanth, Varun; Bhandal, Jotepreet; de Quinto Schneider, Monica; Georgis, Ines; Shilston, Fiona – London Review of Education, 2021
Within the literature on decolonizing the curriculum, a clear distinction is frequently made between diversity and decolonization. While "decolonization" entails dismantling colonial forms of knowledge, including practices that racialize and categorize, "diversity" is a policy discourse that advocates for adding different sorts…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Educational Change, Diversity, Political Science
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Obradovic, Lana; Black, Michelle – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
Although deterrence was one of the cornerstones of the international relations field for much of the 20th century, today surveys demonstrate that most students lack even a basic understanding of this concept. Yet, in the light of recent events on the Korean Peninsula, in China, and the post-Soviet space, our civilian and military leaders continue…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, International Relations, Critical Thinking, Strategic Planning
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Smith, Hayden; Michelsen, Niall – Journal of Political Science Education, 2017
Utilizing a web-based simulation Statecraft, we explore the relative influence of ideology (realism and idealism) on student behavior and learning. By placing students into ideologically cohesive groups, we are able to demonstrate the effect of their ideology on the goals they pursue and identify the constraints imposed on the system by the…
Descriptors: Political Science, Ideology, Computer Simulation, Foreign Policy
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Saiya, Nilay – Journal of Political Science Education, 2016
Professors of international relations are increasingly realizing that simulations can be a fun and effective way of teaching the complexities of the field to their students. One popular simulation that has emerged in recent years--the "Statecraft" simulation--is now used by more than 190 colleges and universities worldwide. Despite…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Student Attitudes, International Relations, College Faculty
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White, Kenneth Michael – Journal of Political Science Education, 2013
Teaching the Declaration of Independence can be a challenge. This article presents a lesson plan based on an explication of the title and the first three lines of the Declaration intended to make the American founding era relevant to today's college students. Assuming civic education is a major goal of teaching American Government, assuming…
Descriptors: United States Government (Course), College Instruction, Political Science, Values
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Miller, Alan E. – English Journal, 2010
Written by a petty bureaucrat and diplomat for Lorenzo de Medici, a member of one of the ruling families of Europe, Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince" is a slim volume concerned primarily with advising Medici on how to acquire, maintain, and sustain power over a state. Its difficult and often archaic vocabulary aside, at first glance it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persuasive Discourse, Time Perspective, Power Structure
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Loggins, Julie A. – PS: Political Science and Politics, 2009
A simulation of the foreign policy decision-making process, as described in this article, can assist an instructor in linking students' abstract understanding of complex political events, circumstances, and decision making to the real-world interplay of the multiple factors involved in decision making. It is this type of active learning that helps…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Decision Making, Foreign Policy, Simulation
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Rankin, David M. – Journal of Political Science Education, 2010
When political knowledge is scarce, affective attitudes, which can consist of emotion-driven feelings regarding political figures, government, country, and foreign nations, often assist policy judgment. Based on pre- and post-surveys administered in Introduction to American Politics courses, fall 2003-fall 2005, this study examines how political…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Political Attitudes, United States Government (Course)
Hastedt, Glen – Teaching Political Science, 1981
Discusses role of intelligence, strategic surprise, and intelligence estimating in foreign policy and international relations courses on the college level. Hypothesis is that the case study approach, generally used to introduce foreign policy classes to intelligence failures, doesn't stress the relationship of policy to intelligence and the need…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Needs, Foreign Policy, Higher Education
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