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Taking the Show on the Road: Teaching Political Science in English at Foreign Universities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2002

Susan M. Gorga  and
Jeffery J. Mondak
Susan M. Gorga
Affiliation:
Teaches in the Intensive English Language Program at SUNY-Albany. She holds graduate degrees from Indiana University in both linguistics and political science. She has worked extensively in Central and Eastern Europe, including two years as an English instructor as part of the first wave of Peace Corps volunteers sent to Poland in 1990.
Jeffery J. Mondak
Affiliation:
Professor of political science at Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Indiana University in 1991. He has made numerous trips to Eastern Europe and his research on Romanian politics has appeared in Political Behavior, Political Psychology, and elsewhere. He also has published on American politics.
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Extract

Effective education quite obviously requires that instructors possess both substantive expertise and the ability to communicate that expertise to students. Although skilled teachers routinely meet these dual requirements, doing so sometimes presents a seemingly inexorable dilemma. In this article we address one such situation: when an instructor in possession of the requisite substantive expertise is incapable of teaching in the students' native language.

Type
Research Article
Information
PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 125 - 131
Copyright
© 2001 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

* The courses described in this paper were conducted as part of the Social Science Curriculum Development Program at Babes-Bolyai University, sponsored by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). We also wish to acknowledge the Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Department of State (formerly USIA) for its support of the Social Sciences Curriculum Development for Selected Central and Eastern European Universities. Lastly, we wish to thank Damarys Canache for her helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.