Today’s conversation is with Dr. Eric Leonard, Professor of Political Science and Henkle Family Chair in International Affairs at Shenandoah University. Eric has run Shenandoah’s General Education Program and edited a textbook for teaching International Relations Theory.
Our conversation
· Explores how flipped classroom techniques can help undergraduate students of all levels energize their learning.
· Unpacks assessment structures that transparently focus both instructor and student attention on learning how to learn rather than nuances of global politics.
· And challenges the academic hierarchies between scholarship and teaching that can leave those of us who devote significant energies to the latter feeling insufficiently part of our discipline.
Today’s conversation is with Dr. Eric Leonard, Professor of Political Science and Henkle Family Chair in International Affairs at Shenandoah University. Eric has run Shenandoah’s General Education Program and edited a textbook for teaching International Relations Theory.
Our conversation
· Explores how flipped classroom techniques can help undergraduate students of all levels energize their learning.
· Unpacks assessment structures that transparently focus both instructor and student attention on learning how to learn rather than nuances of global politics.
· And challenges the academic hierarchies between scholarship and teaching that can leave those of us who devote significant energies to the latter feeling insufficiently part of our discipline.