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Active Learning in Comparative Politics: A Mock GermanElection and Coalition-Formation Simulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2002

Stephen M. Shellman
Affiliation:
Doctoral candidate in political science at Florida State University, where he teaches and assists with courses in comparative politics, international relations, and research methods. His primary research interests focus on international and intra-national conflict, forced migration, political development, and political methodology. His dissertation examines the interaction of state repression and political dissent in Third World societies. He has a B.A. from the University of Georgia and an M.S. from Florida State.

Extract

Instructors constantly encourage students to learn and processinformation. Brock and Cameron assert, “Individuals processinformation, learn concepts, and solve problems in different ways”(1999, 251). Some students learn by listening, others learn bytaking notes, more learn by seeing, and still others learn by doingand saying. Yet in many college class-rooms, the dominant teachingmethod is the traditional lecture. While lecturing may be anecessary teaching technique, it is often insufficient for teachinga large number of students with varying learning preferences.

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© 2001 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

*I would like to thank Georg Vanberg, Lanny Martin, and anonymousreviewers for their useful comments and suggestions.