Pluralism Meets Pluralism: Ethnography, Decolonization, and Civic Engagement

Session Submission Type: Virtual Created Panel

Session Description

This panel truly reflects the 2020 call for pluralism. One paper examines the plural choices of students regarding forms of educational delivery. Another contextualizes inequality by using ethnographic approaches to better understand how students at an international school processed information about racial inequality in the United States. A third paper seeks to decolonized the comparative politics syllabus. The final paper takes a qualitative approach to understand centers and institutes of civic engagement.

Sub Unit

• Division 10: Political Science Education

Individual Presentations

• Contextualizing Inequality with Ethnographic Interviews (Pre-Recorded) - Jocelyn Sage Mitchell, Northwestern University in Qatar

• Decolonizing the Comparative Politics Syllabus After U.S. Exceptionalism - Bilgesu Sumer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Pluralism in the Online Classroom - Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University; Charity Butcher, Kennesaw State University

• Understanding Centers & Institutes of Civic Engagement: A Qualitative Approach - Mary A. McHugh, Merrimack College; Elizabeth C. Matto, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Chair

• James M. Quirk American University

Discussant

• Rebecca McCumbers Flavin Baylor University