Full Description
Against the backdrop of disintegrative tendencies in the EU, where Brexit perhaps most profoundly captures the spirit of current developments in the EU, this book offers a detailed understanding of the key issues, challenges, and opportunities that educators across Europe and beyond encounter on a daily basis when teaching EU-related course content at higher education institutions.
Written by a team of international academics and practitioners engaged with teaching, researching, and explaining European integration to successive generations of students, this edited collection showcases expert voices on the issues and developments central in the debate on how to teach the EU efficiently today. Using a wide variety of case studies, the chapters examine how novel approaches to teaching and learning, and especially technology-enhanced tools and methods, can lead to better teaching and learning outcomes in the Brexit age. A cutting-edge collection of insights from experts teaching and researching the EU, this book will serve as a timely resource for educators, researchers, administrators, and decision-makers.
Contents
PART I. WHY BOTHER? - HIGHER VALUES AND THE UNIVERSAL CAUSE IN TEACHING EU REVISITED Chapter 1. What is at stake in teaching the EU in times of Brexit? - an introduction; Anna Visvizi, Mark Field, and Marta Pachocka
Chapter 2. "Why bother?": learning and teaching about European Union politics; Cláudia Toriz Ramos
Chapter 3. Vision, not division: EU and EU citizenship in teaching about EU; Olga Bombardelli
PART II. INNOVATION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING EU IN HEI IN TIMES OF BREXIT
Chapter 4. Brexit as breeding ground for problem-based learning; Dina Sebastião and Sara Dias-Trindade
Chapter 5. Using simulations to teach within UK higher education: an analysis of student perceptions of European studies-based simulations' pedagogical and other benefits; Karen Heard-Lauréote and Mark Field
Chapter 6. Technological tools in teaching EU: a design thinking proposal; Emilio J. González and José M. Mella
Chapter 7. Mixing teaching, research and expertise within the Jean Monnet Chair framework: the EUMedEA Crash Course; Stefania Panebianco
Chapter 8. Regional dimension of teaching about the EU and entrepreneurship in Poland; Małgorzata Dziembała
PART III. COUNTRY AND REGIONAL DIMENSIONS OF TEACHING EU: ISSUES AND IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 9. Teaching and learning the European Union in Romania: traditional and digital tools; Cristina Matiuta
Chapter 10. Teaching EU in Hungary; Anna Molnár and Mónika Szente-Varga
Chapter 11. Teaching EU law in difficult times in Turkey; Feyza Basar
Chapter 12. Turning the tide in curriculum development in teaching European studies in Africa; Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, and Dickson Ajisafe
Chapter 13. Teaching the EU, and teaching how to think: concluding remarks; Anna Visvizi, Mark Field, and Marta Pachocka
