Methods Discussion and Active Learning in a Volatile Age: A Reflection and Analysis

Autor/in	Mikell, Ray
Titel	Methods Discussion and Active Learning in a Volatile Age: A Reflection and Analysis
Quelle	In: Journal of Political Science Education, 15 (2019) 2, S.247-256 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-2169
DOI	10.1080/15512169.2018.1464928
Schlagwörter	Active Learning; Teaching Methods; Current Events; Emotional Response; News Reporting; Death; African Americans; Social Media; Undergraduate Students; Political Science; Black Colleges; Whites; College Faculty; Teacher Characteristics; Critical Thinking; Thinking Skills; Research Methodology; Teacher Attitudes; Controversial Issues (Course Content); Activism; Police + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aktives Lernen; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Aktualität; Emotionales Verhalten; News report; Reportage; Sterbefall; Tod; Todesfall; Afroamerikaner; Soziale Medien; Staatslehre; Politikwissenschaft; Politische Wissenschaft; White; Weißer; Fakultät; Kritisches Denken; Denkfähigkeit; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Lehrerverhalten; Controversial issues; Kontroverse; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest
Abstract	From 2012 to 2016, American news headlines were dominated at various times by the killing of black men either stopped by police or presumed to be engaging in suspicious activity, and protests that spread through the Internet social media hashtag #blacklivesmatter. In this piece, the author revisits his time in teaching at an historically black university (HBCU) during this era, as a White professor. In so doing, the piece analyzes how teaching and using strategies and tools borrowed from the teaching of political science research methods, and active learning strategies generally, can help political science instructors at all weary of taking on similarly explosive issues in their classes--especially, but not exclusively, when the backgrounds of students and faculty differ considerably. Issues are analyzed through a literature review that focuses on issues and matters including: Whether to keep current events discussion and related activity and the emotional reactions they can provoke out of the classroom, incorporating research methods into and promoting scientific thinking in undergraduate classes, and the need for critical thinking and active learning in the political science classroom. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01