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Teaching Politics and International Relations to the next generation of Europeans

26 - 27 June 2014
Maastricht, the Netherlands

Supported by:
Standing Group on Teaching and Learning Politics
Application deadline
Deadline for Paper proposals: 16 December 2013
Fees
Further information and booking




Objectives

The aim of this conference is to bring together members of existing teaching and learning networks (ECPR, UK Political Studies Association, British International Studies Association and UACES, the academic association for contemporary European Studies) and to provide an opportunity for exchange, discussion and reflection about those questions and about teaching and learning politics and International Relations to the next generation of Europeans in more general terms.

Courses

Contributions are welcome on any topic of teaching and learning, but we would like to encourage participants to consider the following questions:

  • In what respect is there a “new” generation of European students? In what manner are current and future students different: in terms of their expectations, needs, and demands?
  • How to react and integrate the demand for skills and employability in everyday teaching?
  • Who should ensure students´ motivation, and how can this be achieved?
  • How to remember what it means to learn ourselves?
  • How to harness the potential for active engagement in Politics and IR teaching?
  • What role for Politics and IR to provide counter-balance to increasing disenchantment with politics among younger generations of citizens?

A limited number of travel grants for (post-) graduate students and junior faculty will be available, subject to selection based on conference involvement and financial resources available.

Contact Heidi Maurer



Additional information:  What does it mean to teach Politics and International Relations to the next generation of Europeans, what should it mean for the next generation of Europeans to learn Politics and International Relations? What are the opportunities of educating the next generation of a knowledge society? But also what challenges will Politics and IR instructors encounter in the future, considering the overburdening availability of (electronic) information and the growing demand for skills-based education? Next to those global trends in higher education, there are also specific features of European Higher Education that need careful consideration: the Bologna process, the employability discourse, or the raising concern with fees to mention just a few.