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This edited volume is a collection of twenty-three autobiographical narratives by successful teachers of global politics and international relations. The diverse contributors (from a variety of institutional contexts, sub-disciplines, and countries) describe their development as teachers, articulate mission statements for their teaching, and link both to pedagogical practices that exemplify their teaching philosophies. Rather than provide specific recipes for authoritative techniques, the essays empower readers as creative developers of their own approaches to teaching global politics. They demonstrate the multiple ways that instructors have grounded deliberate pedagogical designs in a variety of deeper philosophical commitments, and resources are provided to facilitate discussion and collaborative deliberation between groups of readers.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Teaching Is Impossible: A Polemic.- 3. Pedagogical Micro-communities: Sites of Relationality, Sites of Transformation.- 4. Time for Class.- 5. Things I've Learned from Failure and Friends.- 6. Teaching as Service: Losing and Finding My Identity in Global Classrooms.- 7. Confessions of a Teaching Malcontent: Learning to Like What You Do.-8. Teaching in Capitalist Ruins.- 9. Pedagogies of Discomfort: Teaching International Relations as Humanitas in Times of Brexit.- 10. I Love Teaching: It Is Fun!.- 11. "Come on Down!" Pedagogical Approaches from The Price is Right.- 12. From Two-Time College Dropout to Full Professor: The Non-traditional Route to Teacher and Mentor.- 13. Teaching Writing as Social Justice.- 14. Learning to Teach IR: An Active Learning Approach.- 15. My Metamorphoses as an International Relations Teacher.- 16. Oh Yeah, There's Always Community College.- 17.An Individual Odyssey in Teaching International Relations.- 18. Disciplinary Dungeon Master.- 19. Swimming, Not Sinking: Pedagogical Creativity and the Road to Becoming an Effective IR Teacher.- 20. Strategies of a Boring Teacher.- 21. The Unexpected Gift: "Oh, and You'll be Responsible for the Model UN Program".- 22. Better Than Before: My Pedagogical Journey.- 23. "Love's Labor's Lost": Teaching IR in Germany.- 24. Journey to the Unknown: Survival, Re-awakening, Renewal, and Reformation.
About the author
Jamie Frueh is Professor of History and Political Science at Bridgewater College, USA. As Director of the Center for Engaged Learning, he oversees Bridgewater’s interdisciplinary academic programs and four endowed institutes. He runs pedagogy workshops at home and abroad, and is the 2019 recipient of the International Studies Association’s Deborah Gerner Innovative Teaching Award.
Summary
This edited volume is a collection of twenty-three autobiographical narratives by successful teachers of global politics and international relations. The diverse contributors (from a variety of institutional contexts, sub-disciplines, and countries) describe their development as teachers, articulate mission statements for their teaching, and link both to pedagogical practices that exemplify their teaching philosophies. Rather than provide specific recipes for authoritative techniques, the essays empower readers as creative developers of their own approaches to teaching global politics. They demonstrate the multiple ways that instructors have grounded deliberate pedagogical designs in a variety of deeper philosophical commitments, and resources are provided to facilitate discussion and collaborative deliberation between groups of readers.
