Parker, O. (2016) Teaching (Dissident) Theory in Crisis EU. Journal of Common Market Studies, 54 (1). pp. 37-52. ISSN 0021-9886
Abstract
Teaching theory in the study of EU politics has long posed a range of pedagogical challenges, in part because of the broad range of questions that scholars have posed in relation to the EU as object of study. Often such a challenge is overcome by focusing mainly on how integration occurred/occurs and the associated classical theories of integration. However, this article argues that we do our students a disservice by ignoring an extant theoretical plurality, and perhaps never more so than in the context of the current crisis and its multiple effects. In particular, the crisis heightens the imperative for engagement with questions posed by what this special issue calls 'dissident’ theoretical approaches. Drawing on the experience of co-authoring a textbook on EU politics, the article considers some of the ways in which we might practically include such approaches, while remaining cognizant of pedagogical constraints.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 The Author(s) JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies © 2015 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in JCMS. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | teaching; EU politics; pedagogy; theory |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Sep 2015 13:52 |
Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2017 01:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12333 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/jcms.12333 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:90227 |