2019
DOI: 10.1080/15512169.2019.1568880
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Games, Movies, and Zombies: Making IR Fun for Everyone

Abstract: Throwing as much fun and pop culture into an international relations class as possible, with the goal of improving student learning (and the likelihood of the course running again). Games proved most effective, while movies were less useful in increasing student learning on international relations.

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“…While unfathomable to the authors of this paper, many students find social sciences, including political science and international relations, boring, irrelevant to their lives, or just not interesting (Hess, 1999;Asal and Blake, 2006). The use of role playing simulations can make international politics fun (Youde, 2008;Brandle, 2020) through an active learning experience (Ruben, 1999). Simulations can be used to build on the excitement of topics that students are already interested in.…”
Section: Using Simulationsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…While unfathomable to the authors of this paper, many students find social sciences, including political science and international relations, boring, irrelevant to their lives, or just not interesting (Hess, 1999;Asal and Blake, 2006). The use of role playing simulations can make international politics fun (Youde, 2008;Brandle, 2020) through an active learning experience (Ruben, 1999). Simulations can be used to build on the excitement of topics that students are already interested in.…”
Section: Using Simulationsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Por otra parte, los estudios que han registrado la incorporación de artefactos de la cultura popular en cursos de introducción a las Relaciones Internacionales, en particular en el caso de documentales y películas, suelen destacar varias ventajas. Por ejemplo, el uso de estos materiales audiovisuales suele incrementar el compromiso de los estudiantes con el material del curso (Gibert, 2016;Holland, 2015;Schwak, 2020;Valeriano, 2013), y permite una aproximación más entretenida para la enseñanza de temas académicos (Brandle, 2020). Varios artículos también concluyen que los contenidos audiovisuales pueden ilustrar conceptos abstractos con ejemplos concretos en un formato que los estudiantes están más acostumbrados a consumir (Holland, 2014;Valeriano, 2013).…”
Section: Cultura Popular Y Enseñanza De Relaciones Internacionalesunclassified
“…El uso de películas y documentales como material complementario a las lecturas académicas se ha vuelto una práctica extendida en la enseñanza de cursos de Introducción a las Relaciones Internacionales en distintas universidades del mundo (Brandle, 2020;Gibert, 2016;Simpson y Kaussler, 2009;Swimelar, 2013;Valeriano, 2013;Weber, 2001). Sin embargo, hay pocas investigaciones que hayan explorado el uso de series de ficción en estos cursos introductorios (Boaz, 2020;Holland, 2015).…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…A walk to remember: movie night Using movies in the classroom is an old technique, yet there is still ample room for their use in IR courses (Neves Jr. and Zanella 2016;Iretzberger 2021). In IR, movies can: be used for historical context (Valeriano 2013;Inoue and Krain 2014;Saltzman 2019); for immersion in a proposed scenario; to stimulate debate (Zanella and Neves Jr. 2015;; or to awaken interest in a given subject (Brandle 2020). Movies can also be an object of analysis themselves, as Zanella and Neves Jr. ( 2017) suggest, through the use of three methodological resources: text analysis, the external-aesthetic method, and thematic contextualization.…”
Section: It Is Simply Necessary To Love 18 : the Art Collectionmentioning
confidence: 99%