Teaching European Union Politics

Edited by Viviane Gravey, Senior Lecturer in European Politics, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen's University Belfast and Christopher Huggins, Director of Academic Programmes and Associate Teaching Professor, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, UK

‘This essential book brings together everything I appreciate in a volume on teaching politics: diverse, interdisciplinary voices; an emphasis on active learning in all its forms; and an approach that considers not only changes in the subject itself, but how that subject—in this case, the EU’s pathway in integration and policy—itself affects both teachers and students.’

• Contents:PART I SETTING THE SCENE1 Introduction: teaching and learning European politics ina time of crisis 2Christopher Huggins and Viviane Gravey2 A field in crisis? 14Viviane GraveyPART II DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES3 Mapping a discipline: interdisciplinarity and the core ofEuropean Studies 35Patrick Bijsmans and Johan Adriaensen4 Teaching the European Union from a comparative politicsperspective 51Mads Dagnis Jensen5 Teaching international relations 63Hanna L. Mühlenhoff6 Teaching European Union public policy 76Nicholas Wright7 Teaching European Union law 93Claudina Richards8 Teaching European Union politics: the perspective of history 106Carine Sophie Germond and Lise Rye9 Integrating economics into the teaching of EuropeanUnion politics 123Robert Ackrill10 Towards a ‘critical-pluralist’ approach to teaching theEuropean Union 139Owen ParkerPART III ACTIVE LEARNING APPROACHES INTEACHING EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS11 Teaching European Union politics with technology 154Alexandra Mihai12 Active learning in European studies: the benefits andchallenges of problem-based learning 168Patrick Bijsmans13 Simulations: the affordances and challenges of animmersive teaching tool 182Karen Heard-Lauréote and Mark Field14 Field trips and experiential learning in European Union politics 197Christopher Huggins15 University law clinics in practice: aims and implementation 212Eleanor Scarlett16 Analysing public policy in the classroom 228Viviane Gravey17 Teaching European Union politics beyond highereducation: the case of primary school education throughMy Big Friendly Guide to the European Union 242Emmanuelle Schön-QuinlivanPART IV CONCLUSIONS18 Conclusions on teaching European Union politics 255Viviane Gravey and Christopher HugginsIndex