Political Science in Japan, 1952

Teaching Political Science in Europe

Thisarticle first reviews the history of political science teaching in Europebefore going on to consider a range of recent developments in the teaching of politicalscience, including cross-national joint programmers; technologically enhancedlearning; placement learning and problem-based learning. The last sectionconsiders a range of issues facing political science teachers, includingfinancial p...

Political Science in Canada

Reconstructing race in science and society: biology textbooks, 1952-2002.

How has growing knowledge about human genetics affected how American textbooks present race? This article analyzes 80 biology textbooks published from 1952 to 2002 to reveal that U.S. biology texts have pursued the topic of race with renewed vigor in recent years. Moreover, textbooks have redefined race as genetic without furnishing empirical evidence for this framing. The textbooks' transforma...

Transcendent Wisdom Patterns for Political Science

Abstract:About whether Islamic philosophy can play a role in the production of humanities? There is a continuum of ideas that, on the one hand, are ideas that have neglected the role of Islamic philosophy in general. And on the other hand, there are ideas that incor-porate the teachings of Islamic philosophy into paradigmatic elements for the produc-tion of a new type of human science. In...

Laboratory Experiments in Political Science

Until the middle of the twentieth century, the discipline of political science was primarily qualitative – philosophical, descriptive, legalistic, and typically reliant on case studies that failed to probe causation in any measurable way. The word " science " was not entirely apt. In the 1950s, the discipline was transformed by the behavioral revolution, spearheaded by advocates of a more socia...