The Continuing Significance of History: An Active-Learning Simulation to Teach About the Origins of Racial Inequality

Stout, Vanessa; Kretschmer, Kelsy; Stout, Christopher

doi:10.1080/15512169.2015.1067625

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“…Unconventional pedagogical approaches designed to respond to students' individual needs as they arise, known as differentiated learning, are also used in undergraduate political science courses (H. R. Ernst & T. L. Ernst, 2005). Other scholars teach about race, discrimination, and inequality by employing active learning simulations using Monopoly, Ships, and Shoes (Stout, V. Kretschmer, & Stout, C., 2016). These innovative pedagogies respond to the challenges of diverse student needs and begin to address the skepticism some students possess when learning about racism and inequality.…”

Section: Innovative and Unconventional Pedagogy In Political Sciencementioning

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The Effectiveness of Intersectional Political Science Pedagogy in an Introductory Course in American Public Policy

Fletcher

Hoffman

2023

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The study seeks to confront the challenge of incorporating the role of inequality, identity, and intersectionality into political science teaching and learning. In this quasi-experimental design, we explore the variation in two introductory courses in public policy. The design and content were similar for both sections. For the experimental section, we integrated intersectional political science pedagogy. This section employed a flipped classroom, introducing innovative approaches to grading and assessment that were accessible, inclusive, and anti-racist. In the control group section, the course was traditionally taught without supplemental material on intersectionality or the more innovative and unconventional pedagogy. We hypothesize that students enrolled in the intersectional section will have more interest and knowledge in public policy, as well as a deeper understanding of racial progress as it relates to the policy process. Moreover, we predict that students will display some resistance and discomfort when it comes to participating in class discussions.

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Section: Innovative and Unconventional Pedagogy In Political Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

The Effectiveness of Intersectional Political Science Pedagogy in an Introductory Course in American Public Policy

Fletcher

Hoffman

2023

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“…For example, modified versions of well-known board games have been used in classrooms to advance understandings of the structural dimensions of social inequality. Stout et al (2016) provide a powerful account of using a game called 'Ships and Shoes' (essentially an adapted Monopoly) to help simulate the historical nature of racial inequality in the US. Rules that create inequalities between players in turn-taking, distribution of resources, borrowing limits etc mimic the lack of opportunities under-represented communities faced in early American history.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the same way, Stout et al's (2016) adapted Monopoly game was used to scaffold critical and openminded engagement with two challenging policy texts on inequality - Wilson's (1987) The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy and Rustin's classic civil rights commentary From Protest to Politics (1965). And, Bots et al's (2010) role play simulation on debt resettlement was designed to support the differentiation of two challenging concepts -substantive and political rationality.…”

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Teaching with experiments

2022

Using Service Learning in Public Administration Programs: Best Practices and Challenges

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This chapter presents a teaching form whose popularity in public administration has increased in recent years: experiments. The first part outlines three prevalent experimental forms: survey experiments with students exposed to a treatment; in-class experiments drawn from social psychology; and simulations and role-playing games. Though the trend toward experiments is relativity new, and motivated by the push for student-centred active learning, its pedagogical roots are old: these are a contemporary manifestation of experiential learning (Kolb 1984). As such, experiments have much to recommend them. And, in the second half of the chapter, we focus on their utility for public administration advancing seven specific claims. The chapter closes noting the challenges for would-be experimenters.

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“…Moreover, Benjamin (2002) stated that students remembered only about 20 percent from the last 10 minutes of class compared to 70 percent from the first 10. Therefore, scholars (Prince 2004; V. Stout, Kretschmer, and Stout 2016) are suggesting that breaking up lecture with an active learning activity might be useful for students.…”

Section: Active Learning Comic Books and Mediamentioning

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Teaching Race and Ethnicity in the Age of Trump: Using Popular Culture in a Polarized Classroom

2020

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Teaching race and ethnicity in various sociology courses, we found students in our classes can be very reluctant to approach the subject of race, discrimination, and racism. Moreover, during class discussion, they often have a hard time defining and analyzing these concepts. In this study, we examine how popular culture can be a useful tool to teach difficult subjects, such as race and ethnicity. Instead of a traditional lecture, we had students watch the popular Cartoon Network series Teen Titans. Using the characters’ interactions from this series as examples, students constructed definitions of racism and discrimination. The result of this study demonstrates that students may be more comfortable recognizing and discussing fictional characters’ racist or discriminatory behavior as a way of entering the conversation. After discussing fictional examples, students effectively link events from the cartoon to the subsequent lecture about race and racism.

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The Continuing Significance of History: An Active-Learning Simulation to Teach About the Origins of Racial Inequality

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

The Effectiveness of Intersectional Political Science Pedagogy in an Introductory Course in American Public Policy

The Effectiveness of Intersectional Political Science Pedagogy in an Introductory Course in American Public Policy

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Teaching Race and Ethnicity in the Age of Trump: Using Popular Culture in a Polarized Classroom

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