Image from Lesekreis, Wikimedia Commons I love this quote from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, when Humpty Dumpty says to Alice: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” Now, the political science research is...
Image from “Return to the Isle of Ted,” PS: Political Science and Politics (July 2020) In my team-taught, interdisciplinary course on climate change, my priority in my political science section was to help my students understand collective action problems—when people...
Card concept and design by Hessa Al-Ali (2018) for Qatar Museums Climate change is known as a “wicked problem” because it is so complex and difficult to solve! A large part of this complexity is due to collective action problems: when people fail to successfully work...
Brochure title page from the Her Majlis exhibition, Hamad bin Khalifa University Art Gallery, September 2015. Full brochure accessible here. Authentic learning is a teaching approach that gets students involved in real-life experiences to promote active...
US Congress, image from ArtsyBeeKids, Pixabay According to the US Constitution, what is the most important branch of the federal government? Contrary to (somewhat) popular opinion, it’s not the presidency—it’s Congress! In my intro American politics class, it’s...
