Innovative teaching methods in International Relations

A research project that experiments with innovative and interdisciplinary methods for teaching International Relations

How to teach IR concepts to underdraduate students in Global South contexts?  The project serves as a platform to experiment with innovative pedagogical approaches and interdisciplinary teaching methods in IR. Faculty members that participated in the project tested a teaching method from a range of options that were previously identified in the literature review process. Methods that incorporate visual technologies and multi-media in teaching environments. Areas covered included: a) Art, cinema, and IR; (b) Simulations, video games and IR; and c) Media and IR. Researchers kept a record of the various stages of the project development which included the processes of designing, implementation and evaluation of results of the teaching methods. The following criteria were employed to evaluate results: learning performance of core IR concepts; student engagement throughout the course and activities; stimulation of critical thinking. Furthermore, the assessment of results also included surveys to gather imputs about student views about the usefulness of the methods used in the courses. 

Period: 2018-2021 | UNSAM acredited project PRI13/19.

Research Team

Dr. Marcelo Saguier
Principal Investigator

Dr. Max Vila Seoane
Co-Principal Investigator

Dr. Luciana Gil

Dr. Mariela Cuadro

Dr. Alejandra Kern

Panel Presentations

  • Saguier, Marcelo & Cuadro, Mariela (2018), Congreso Anual de la International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco, EEUU. 
  • Vila Seoane Maximiliano (2020) «Teaching IR in the Global South: audiovisual culture and the geopolitics of representation», Panel: IR pedagogy in the Global South: popular culture and innovative teaching methods”, VI World International Studies (WISC) Conference, Buenos Aires. 
  • Kern, Alejandra (2020) «Simulation as a pedagogical tool: learning from the experience of a UN Security Council model on the Rwanda genocide», Panel: IR pedagogy in the Global South: popular culture and innovative teaching methods”, VI World International Studies (WISC) Conference, Buenos Aires. 
  • Mira, Julieta (2020) «Human Rights and International Relations at UNSAM: A dialogue under construction«, Panel: IR pedagogy in the Global South: popular culture and innovative teaching methods”, VI World International Studies (WISC) Conference, Buenos Aires. 
  • Cuadro, Mariela (2020) «Teaching through “Black Earth Rising”: poststructural, post/decolonial, and feminist readings», Research seminar, IIP-EPyG, UNSAM. 
  • Vila Seoane, M. & Gil. L. (2023) «Fiction Series in the Teaching of International Relations: Experiences at UNSAM», Research seminar, MA/PhD Program in International Relations, EPyG UNSAM. 
  • Percoco. J.I. & Labiano, V. (2023) «Memories of Future Empires: The Productive Effects of Imperial Imaginaries in Science Fiction Series», Research seminar, MA/PhD Program in International Relations, EPyG UNSAM. 

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