Teaching Curve 10 Ralph Carter on Humanizing Pedagogies to Produce More Happiness

The Teaching Curve is a podcast exploring the teaching and learning of global issues. This episode with Dr. Ralph Carter, Piper Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas in the US, explores case study techniques in US Foreign Policy courses, methods for helping students engage their power as both analysts and decision makers in ways that serve them well beyond the classroom, and the role that happiness should play in the career and lifestyle choices we as scholars make. 

The episode explores: 
•How teaching with case studies humanizes practices of global politics that can seem to students linear and inevitable. 

•Methods for helping students engage their power as both analysts and decision makers in ways that serve them well beyond the classroom.

•The role that happiness should play in the career and lifestyle choices we as scholars make.