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APSA Educate is political science’s teaching resource library, currently home original teaching resources. This new cutting-edge virtual platform allows faculty and graduate students to easily share, find, and use high quality political science teaching resources of all types and across all topics. Educate is free to use and easy to submit your resources.

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Resource of the Week: Eurozone Crisis Policy Roundtable Simulation

August 6, 2020 Comments Off on Resource of the Week: Eurozone Crisis Policy Roundtable Simulation

Eurozone Crisis Policy Roundtable Simulation by William Winecoff This exercise asks students to simulate the negotiation process of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis of 2010-2012. Students represent different countries and institutions involved in the crisis […]

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Teaching Community Organizing and the Practice of Democracy

August 5, 2020 Comments Off on Teaching Community Organizing and the Practice of Democracy

Teaching Community Organizing and the Practice of Democracy by Jyl Josephson, Rutgers University–Newark This article builds on the political science literature on the pedagogy of civic engagement by discussing a recent pedagogical experiment that treats […]

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Teaching Introduction to American Government/Politics: What We Learn from the Visual Images in Textbooks

July 31, 2020 Comments Off on Teaching Introduction to American Government/Politics: What We Learn from the Visual Images in Textbooks

Teaching Introduction to American Government/Politics: What We Learn from the Visual Images in Textbooks by Marcus D. Allen, Wheaton College & Sherri L. Wallace, University of Louisville Political science students learn the fundamental principles and […]

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Review of Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race

July 29, 2020 Comments Off on Review of Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race

Review of Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race by Michelle D. Deardorff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga We are regularly confronted in the classroom by the need to […]

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Hard Truths: The Importance of Teaching Race in Introductory American Government and Politics for Undergraduates

July 27, 2020 Comments Off on Hard Truths: The Importance of Teaching Race in Introductory American Government and Politics for Undergraduates

Hard Truths: The Importance of Teaching Race in Introductory American Government and Politics for Undergraduates by Rongal D. Watson, Beloit College In this essay, I recount the rationale for emphasizing race in an introductory American […]