https://blue.feedland.org/?river=http://data.feedland.org/blue/feeds/simonluo.xml It's just a feed for now Tue, 03 Oct 2023 19:19:08 GMT feedland v0.5.59 https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Tue, 03 Oct 2023 19:19:07 GMT simonluo Tue, October 3, 2023 3:19 PM EDT <p>Someone&#39;s complaints about Intro to PoliSci being taught in a hard &quot;scientific&quot; way reminded me of my Intro in grad school, which is still among the best courses I&#39;ve ever taken. It was taught by Bill Scheuerman and, notably, involved a section of disciplinary history.</p> <p>It covered topics such as the rise of behavioralism, the changing contexts of social science research in the postwar context, the biases and contradictions emerging out of competing methods, the possible futures of polisci, etc.</p> <p>Till today I think of it as an urgently needed course for any grad student in polisci, across subfields. It also made it very clear to me that teaching history can powerfully demonstrate the limits of the present, something that deeply shaped my own way of teaching.</p> Tue, 03 Oct 2023 19:19:08 GMT https://blue.feedland.org/?item=140604 https://blue.feedland.org/?item=140604 Someone's complaints about Intro to PoliSci being taught in a hard "scientific" way reminded me of my Intro in grad school, which is still among the best courses I've ever taken. It was taught by Bill Scheuerman and, notably, involved a section of disciplinary history. It covered topics such as the rise of behavioralism, the changing contexts of social science research in the postwar context, the biases and contradictions emerging out of competing methods, the possible futures of polisci, etc. Till today I think of it as an urgently needed course for any grad student in polisci, across subfields. It also made it very clear to me that teaching history can powerfully demonstrate the limits of the present, something that deeply shaped my own way of teaching.