Pedagogy

Teaching International Relations as a Liberal Art

Lisa MacLeod • Apr 16 2021 • Articles

Teaching International Relations as a liberal art is about nurturing your students’ love of learning and coaching them to become better critical thinkers and communicators.

Now Recruiting – Editorial Assistants

E-International Relations • Apr 6 2021 • Features

We are looking for students, at any level, to join us in collating resources such as podcasts, clips and other open sources that we can use to compile for our readers in a new section of the website.

Enhancing Creativity and Communication Skills Through IR Signature Pedagogies

IR teachers should help improve creativity, written and oral skills in a landscape where graduates will have to show their expertise to get a job.

Black Lives Matter, Poetry, and Pedagogy: On Gil Scott-Heron and Global Protests

Lee Jones and Matthew Leep • Jul 10 2020 • Articles

While Gil Scott-Heron’s work contends with the sociopolitical brutalities of racism, it also signals toward the possibilities (and impossibilities) of change.

Student and Faculty Experiences of the Coronavirus Shutdown

E-International Relations • Mar 25 2020 • Student Features

As the coronavirus issue grew into a pandemic and our team experienced the shutdown of their universities, we collected some vignettes that we hope you will find useful.

Let’s Talk: Transformative Leadership and International Relations

Jan Lüdert • Feb 4 2020 • Articles

By exploring transformative leaders’ practice, students gain a deeper understanding when, how, and under what conditions political or social transformation takes place.

Interview – Judith Suissa

E-International Relations • Sep 1 2019 • Features

Prof. Judith Suissa talks about philosophy of education, as well as the intersections between politics, parent-child relationships, classical anarchism and globalisation.

Getting the Most Out of Class Discussion

Daniel Clausen • Apr 8 2019 • Articles

Good and bad discussions seem to occur at all levels, introductory levels, advanced classes, even graduate classes. For teaching academics, this raises some interesting issues.

What to Do When You Don’t Like a Topic You Teach?

Gustav Meibauer • Mar 12 2019 • Articles

Some dislike very narrow things, such as single concepts, specific time periods or empirical cases. Others dislike broad theories, large-scale phenomena, and entire (sub-)disciplines.

Working with and Supporting Teaching Assistants

Benedict Docherty • Feb 14 2019 • Articles

Working with Teaching Assistants means considering an additional set of issues, but this time is well worth the while.

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