Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate: pedagogical innovation to enhance attainment, engagement, satisfaction and employability in political science
By Susan Kenyon, Canterbury Christ Church University
How can we ensure that our students have a positive student experience, which equips them for success post-graduation, without losing the essence of our subject? This paper introduces a promising new pedagogical approach to political science. Adapted from engineering education, Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate (CDIO) is an active, experiential, team-based pedagogy, which simulates the workplace and engages students in designing, building and testing real-world policy solutions for real-world problems. Results suggest that CDIO supports political science students to develop ‘society-ready’ attitudes, attributes and skills, enhancing their experience and increasing attainment, engagement, inclusion and wider graduate outcomes, including civic engagement and social understanding.
The Journal of Political Science Education is an intellectually rigorous, path-breaking, agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on teaching and pedagogical issues in political science. The journal aims to represent the full range of questions, issues and approaches regarding political science education, including teaching-related issues, methods and techniques, learning/teaching activities and devices, educational assessment in political science, graduate education, and curriculum development.