TY - JOUR
T1 - Escape Only by Thinking
T2 - Reinventing the Fred Friendly Seminar for Faculty-to-Faculty Learning at ISA
AU - Chalecki, Elizabeth L.
N1 - Funding Information:
My thanks to Chris Allen from the UNO School of Communication for an enlightening discussion on media, to Jody Neathery-Castro from the UNO Department of Political Science for her ability to jump into a panel with no advance notice and do a great job, and to all the seminar panelists at ISA who were willing to think on their feet and, in doing so, show us all what true educators look like.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - faculty learning
KW - foreign affairs
KW - international relations
KW - Role playing
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U2 - 10.1080/15512169.2019.1641717
DO - 10.1080/15512169.2019.1641717
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85106777050
SN - 1551-2169
VL - 17
SP - 472
EP - 481
JO - Journal of Political Science Education
JF - Journal of Political Science Education
IS - 3
ER -