The fourth annual APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning in
Political Science was held in Charlotte, North Carolina from February
9–11, 2007.Through this special annual meeting APSA continues to promote greater
understanding of cutting-edge approaches, techniques, and methodologies
that can be applied in the political science classroom. This conference
provides a forum where scholars and educators share effective and
innovative teaching and learning models and discuss broad themes and
values affecting political science education.The Conference addressed crucial questions in higher education, such
as enhancing student engagement via civic education, service learning, and
assessing learning outcomes; integrating international models and into
teaching and learning methods; and strengthening efforts by learned
societies such as APSA to support good teaching. In addition, the
Conference reflected APSA's objective of reaching out beyond
traditional approaches to higher education, and includes
college/university faculty, high school teachers, librarians,
publishers, as well as international participants. For a full list of
participants and more information on the 2007 Conference, visit . For information on
the 2008 Conference, contact teaching@apsanet.org.
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