Call for Submissions: Teaching with Simulations and Games

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2018

As active learning and other participatory pedagogies have become a regular feature of college classrooms, faculty have become creative in incorporating simulations and games into the curriculum. The editors of the Journal of Political Science Education invite submissions for a special issue dedicated the use of these pedagogies in the political science classroom. These submissions can be systematic studies (quantitative or qualitative) on the use of these techniques, narrative descriptions of simulations and games that the author has created for use in their own classroom, or reflective essays on the opportunities, accomplishments, and/or challenges inherent in incorporating these types of active learning strategies.

The submission guidelines, style guidelines, submission instructions, and peer review process information can be found online: apsanet.org/jpse.

About JPSE

The Journal of Political Science Education is an intellectually rigorous, peer-reviewed quarterly journal that publishes evidence-based and theoretically informed scholarship on teaching and pedagogical issues in political science. It aims to represent a full range of empirical and philosophical questions, issues, and approaches relevant to political science education at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including research on teaching methods, pedagogical innovations and techniques, classroom activities, educational assessment, and curriculum development. It welcomes work from diverse methodological perspectives, and work that represents levels of analysis ranging from classroom-based studies to inter-institutional and cross-national comparisons. The journal supports research that engages with the broad scholarship of teaching and learning and improves the quality of teaching and learning in the discipline.

Call for Submissions: Politics, Power, and Group Difference in the US

Submission Deadline: Rolling

Do you teach on the politics of race, racism, nationalism or supremacy? Have you updated your syllabus as a result of the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia? APSA is collecting teaching, learning and discussion resources on politics, power, diversity, and group differences. The collected resources will be shared online and on social media platforms. This project arose as a means to acknowledge the issues and debates that have re-surfaced into the public discourse as a result of the Charlottesville, Virginia protests and violence.

More information online: apsanet.org/divresources/polpowergroups.

Call for Submissions: Special Issue—Trump: Causes and Consequences

Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2018

No matter where you stand on Donald Trump and his presidency, it is difficult to deny that he has inaugurated a period of uncertainty, flux, and potentially revolutionary change in American and global politics. When he descended an escalator in the Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, few saw Trump as more than an interesting sideshow and a future footnote to the history of American politics. Yet he defeated a broad field of Republican contenders, including prominent governors and senators, and pulled out a last minute victory over Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton, despite a preponderance of polls that saw her ahead in the run-up to the vote. We seek to devote a full issue of Perspectives on Politics to thinking in depth about the causes of the Trump victory and the potential consequences of his presidency.

Among the many topics that potential submissions might address are the following:

The submission guidelines, style guidelines, submission instructions, and peer review process information can be found online: apsanet.org/perspectives.

Call for Submissions: Teaching with Simulations and Games

Submission Deadline: March 15th, 2018

Celebrity and fame permeate political life. In the United States and internationally, well-known celebrities advocate for humanitarian causes and even run for political office; elected officials are often renowned for their personal style and social media presence; and the multi-national media and consumer products industries use famous people to increase profits and shape political discourse (to name just some examples). Given that the study of politics is centrally concerned with power, this Special Section aims to examine the power and politics of “celebrity.” We therefore invite scholars to submit theoretical and empirical pieces that build on existing celebrity/celebrities and politics research or break new ground to explore the power of “celebrity” and interrogate the forces that produce and maintain it.

The list of possible paper topics for this Special Section might include, but is not limited to:

Methodological approaches to/challenges for celebrity research in political science.

The submission guidelines, style guidelines, submission instructions, and peer review process information can be found online: apsanet.org/perspectives.