Charity Butcher is the Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development, and a Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at Kennesaw State University in Georgia in the US. Alasdair Blair is Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic at De Montfort University, in Leicester in the UK.

Charity is the Editor-in-Chief and Alasdair is the Lead Editor of the Journal of Political Science Education, which is published under the auspices of the American Political Science Association.

The episode explores

• The concept of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) as a systematic and rigorous exploration of the mechanisms of successful pedagogy.

• How JPSE and publications like it promote both the wisdom of particular teacher/scholars and the value of pedagogy scholarship more generally.

• Suggestions for how to improve the chances that a submission to JPSE will be accepted for publication.

The interview was edited for length.

Acknowledgements:

Thanks to the steering committee for International Studies Association’s Innovative Pedagogy Initiative, the folks at ISA HQ, and special thanks to Sarah Dorr, Joel Lorenzatti and Josephine Anderson for logistical and technical support.

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For 23 more stories about innovative and effective teachers of international studies, including one from Naeem, check out Pedagogical Journeys through World Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030203047