“Home is Where the Heart is”: Learning and Teaching Political Ideology Through Interior Design
By Oliver Harrison, Nottingham Trent University
Using a metaphor offered in Michael Freeden’s (1998) morphological approach and guided by the principles of active collaborative learning throughout, this article explores the potential of an original and technologically innovative activity designed to aide students’ conceptual understanding of three Western political ideologies – namely, Liberalism, Conservatism, and Socialism. Drawing on a sample of 36 volunteers from a year one, undergraduate political ideologies module, through a focus group discussion and questionnaire there was unanimous agreement amongst participants as to the intended usefulness of the activity, as too, the creation of a collaborative, engaging, and memorable learning experience.
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.
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