Teaching

Student Feature – Advice on Writing an Essay

E-International Relations • Aug 10 2016 • Student Features

This guide is aimed at a beginner, typically a student embarking on their first year of university study. It may also be useful as a recap for more experienced students.

Teaching as a Southern in the North

Maysam Behravesh • Aug 9 2016 • Articles

Various phenomenon that may drive negative feedback against instructors should be considered by academic institutions before they make career-defining decisions about teaching staff.

IR ‘News of the Week’: A Student’s Perspective

David Squires • Aug 1 2016 • Articles

Discussing news issues with your peers is an unburdening exercise that helps develop research and presentation skills and builds confidence in applying theories.

Preaching the Craft of Reading

Daniel Clausen • Jul 27 2016 • Articles

Students should be encouraged to read outside their comfort zone to work out their reading muscles, or even to just turn off their TV, radios, and electronic devices.

Implementing a Flipped Classroom: Student Generated Wikis and Videos

Jan Lüdert • Jul 18 2016 • Articles

Today’s students are learning in different ways and instructors have not been paying enough attention to these changes, especially in the area of technology.

Teaching International Organizations as Bureaucracies

Simon Fink • Jul 14 2016 • Articles

It can only be a good thing if students learn about the power inherent in definitions, and can reflect on the normative problems arising from these definitions.

Gamification: It’s in the Game

Lukas K. Danner • Jul 4 2016 • Articles

Gamification is more than just adding a game to your general routine of teaching a class, it brings material alive and positively engages students.

Signature Pedagogies in International Relations

Jan Lüdert • Jun 18 2016 • Articles

We can learn a lot by exploring the signature pedagogies of the study and praxis of IR and by examining how these signature pedagogies improve teaching and learning.

The Use of Simulations as a Teaching Tool

Daniela Irrera • May 26 2016 • Articles

By connecting international politics to the ‘real’ world, simulations combined with traditional lectures and readings make a course more interactive and involving.

The EU Challenge: Teaching an Institution in Crisis

Jocelyn Mawdsley • Mar 10 2016 • Articles

While ongoing crises present challenges in the classroom, they also provide opportunities to demonstrate that EU politics is important for students

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