Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Session Description

As the 2024 Annual Meeting conference chairs note in their call for proposals, “[s]cholars, political professionals, and citizens alike sense a growing need to enhance civic learning, perhaps most acutely in higher education.” In 2024 Civic Pedagogies: Teaching Civic Engagement in an Era of Divisive Politics will be published by Palgrave Macmillan. This edited volume brings together more than three dozen students, scholars, and practitioners to tackle questions related to how political science, specifically, and higher education, more broadly, can offer civically-engaged pedagogies in an era of polarization, hyper-partisanship, and the politicization of higher education. In this roundtable, the volume’s editors and representative authors discuss the book and invite conversation from the audience about its strengths and weaknesses. The roundtable participants will also offer their perspectives on how best to promote civic learning at such a difficult moment, particularly for junior and minoritized scholars.

Sub Unit

• Division 58: Civic Engagement

Cosponsor

• Division 10: Political Science Education

Chair

• Carah Ong Whaley Center for Politics at UVA

Presenters

• Allison Rank SUNY, Oswego State

• Lauren Cohen Bell Randolph-Macon College

• Andrew Hewitt Smith Univ of Texas Rio Grande Valley

• Richard J. Meagher Randolph-Macon College

• John P. Forren Miami University

• Leah A. Murray Weber State University