Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-25-2019

Publication Title

Journal of Political Science Education

Volume

17

Issue

3

First Page

472

Last Page

481

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2019.1641717

Abstract

The original Fred Friendly Seminar was a Socratic dialog intended for expert debate on issues of ethics and public policy. I wanted to apply the format to inter-faculty learning on issues of international relations and foreign policy, so I proposed a type of hybrid scenario, combining the detail and self-reflection of a traditional seminar with the forward motion and iterative learning potential of a war game. I recruited my fellow faculty members at five International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conferences and ran faculty participation scenarios on topics from water security to pandemics and public health to global warming and energy in the Arctic. This unique type of roundtable allowed faculty to familiarize themselves with the unique format and experience the scenario from the inside, as their students do. In this article, I will outline how and why Fred Friendly constructed the seminars, discuss how I modified them into the seminar/war game hybrid used for ISA, and discuss the lessons my fellow faculty and I learned from participating in the seminars.

Comments

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Political Science Education on July 25, 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2019.1641717

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