Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors

Michael P. A. Murphy is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University and Centre for International & Defence Policy, Canada.Misbah Hyder is Visiting Assistant Professor for the Teaching Excellence Center at the United States Naval War College.

• 1. Introduction.- Section 1: Early Career Instructor Experiences.- 2. Unsure, stumbling, and finding joy in teaching: Building confidence as an Early Career Instructor.- 3. Teaching global, considering the local: Compassion, locations of authority, and feminist approaches to instructing IR .- 4. From International to Domestic (and Back Again?).-5.Affective Conversations on Teaching and Research: Power, Gender, and ‘Making the Sandwiches’.- 6. Digital Pedagogie-Z: Generating Care, Generative Technologies, and Generational Trauma.- 7. Systemic Support for ECIs: Signaling Values in the Neoliberal University.- 8. Neoliberalism Vs. D.E.I.: the market and profit-driven limitations of inclusivity.- 9. How Early Career Instructors Benefit From Collaborative Course Design.- 10. Teaching Research Inside and Outside the Classroom.- 11. Reaching Beyond the Ivory Tower: Early Career Instructors and the Pedagogy of Policy Relevance.- 12. Navigating Trigger Warnings, Classroom Speech, and Public Debates as an Early Career Instructor.-Section 2: Training, Mentorship, and Institutional Contexts.- 13. Critical Reflection and Early Career Instructor Formation.- 14. Doing it for Ourselves: Creating Spaces for, and by, Early Career Instructors.- 15. Discipline-Specific Teaching and Pedagogical Development: A Missing Piece in Canadian Political Science Graduate Education.- 16. Pedagogical Mentorship for Mutual Benefit.- 17. Professional Associations in Early Career Development: Getting There Faster, Higher and Stronger.- 18. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: building supportive communities.- 19. Can “the Literature” Be a Mentor? Early Career Instructors Write a Review Article.- 20. Mentoring teaching-focused ECIs in a marketized Higher Education sector.- 21. Preparing Early -Career Instructors for Context-Dependent Teaching.- 22. Conclusion.