Teaching European Union Politics

Edited by Viviane Gravey, Senior Lecturer in European Politics, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen's University Belfast and Christopher Huggins, Director of Academic Programmes and Associate Teaching Professor, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, UK

Contents:

PART I SETTING THE SCENE
1 Introduction: teaching and learning European politics in
a time of crisis 2
Christopher Huggins and Viviane Gravey
2 A field in crisis? 14
Viviane Gravey

PART II DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
3 Mapping a discipline: interdisciplinarity and the core of
European Studies 35
Patrick Bijsmans and Johan Adriaensen
4 Teaching the European Union from a comparative politics
perspective 51
Mads Dagnis Jensen
5 Teaching international relations 63
Hanna L. Mühlenhoff
6 Teaching European Union public policy 76
Nicholas Wright
7 Teaching European Union law 93
Claudina Richards
8 Teaching European Union politics: the perspective of history 106
Carine Sophie Germond and Lise Rye
9 Integrating economics into the teaching of European
Union politics 123
Robert Ackrill
10 Towards a ‘critical-pluralist’ approach to teaching the
European Union 139
Owen Parker

PART III ACTIVE LEARNING APPROACHES IN
TEACHING EUROPEAN UNION POLITICS
11 Teaching European Union politics with technology 154
Alexandra Mihai
12 Active learning in European studies: the benefits and
challenges of problem-based learning 168
Patrick Bijsmans
13 Simulations: the affordances and challenges of an
immersive teaching tool 182
Karen Heard-Lauréote and Mark Field
14 Field trips and experiential learning in European Union politics 197
Christopher Huggins
15 University law clinics in practice: aims and implementation 212
Eleanor Scarlett
16 Analysing public policy in the classroom 228
Viviane Gravey
17 Teaching European Union politics beyond higher
education: the case of primary school education through
My Big Friendly Guide to the European Union 242
Emmanuelle Schön-Quinlivan

PART IV CONCLUSIONS
18 Conclusions on teaching European Union politics 255
Viviane Gravey and Christopher Huggins

Index