{"id":175,"date":"2025-10-21T16:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/apsa2026\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:39:18","slug":"tlc-at-apsa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/apsa2026\/tlc-at-apsa\/","title":{"rendered":"TLC at APSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/apsa2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2026\/01\/mini-confcall-for-proposals-tlcatapsa-e1768656664563-1024x471.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/apsa2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2026\/01\/mini-confcall-for-proposals-tlcatapsa-e1768656664563-1024x471.png 1024w, https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/apsa2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2026\/01\/mini-confcall-for-proposals-tlcatapsa-e1768656664563-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/apsa2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2026\/01\/mini-confcall-for-proposals-tlcatapsa-e1768656664563-768x353.png 768w, https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/apsa2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2026\/01\/mini-confcall-for-proposals-tlcatapsa-e1768656664563-1536x706.png 1536w, https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/apsa2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/112\/2026\/01\/mini-confcall-for-proposals-tlcatapsa-e1768656664563-2048x942.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:36px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>2026 TLC at APSA<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>APSA Annual Meeting &amp; Exhibition | Boston, MA | <strong>Saturday, September 5, 2026<\/strong><\/strong><br>Theme: &#8220;<em>(Re)building Precarious Democracy Through the Classroom<\/em>&#8220;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><strong>The proposal submission system is CLOSED.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In keeping with the overall conference theme of \u201cDemocracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild,\u201d the 2026 TLC APSA theme is \u201c<strong>(Re)building Precarious Democracy Through the Classroom<\/strong>,\u201d on <strong>Saturday, September 5, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>&#8220;(Re)building Precarious Democracy Through the Classroom&#8221;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We seek to address the following questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How do civic education and political literacy repair democracy and make it more resistant?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How can classrooms become laboratories for democratic practice rather than only spaces for theoretical discussion?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What role does the classroom play in combating misinformation and disinformation? How can teachers foster civil discourse in polarized environments?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What strategies can educators use to teach the importance of rule of law and constitutional principles?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How can schools prepare students to recognize and resist authoritarian tendencies? What role does experiential learning (e.g., service learning, simulations, nondisposable assignments, and OER-engaged pedagogy) play in rebuilding democratic engagement?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How can classrooms approach Habermas&#8217;s &#8220;ideal speech situation\u201d as one way of addressing public debate and strengthening democratic participation?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What innovative pedagogies can help classes be more accessible and foster better belonging for students? What role should technology, like generative artificial intelligence, play in these formulations?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We turn towards these questions as teacher-scholars that wish to protect the democratic and transform the undemocratic through civic engagement, critical thinking, deep reading, difficult conversations, epistemic humility, information literacy, intersubjective role-taking, media literacy, and problem-solving. Our wishes, though lofty, occur in a difficult context of decreased trust, resources, hopes, and commons in the world. Our work focuses on repair through the political science classroom at the micro, meso, and macro scale of politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To this end, we invite you to participate in the day-long program which will feature workshops, panels, presentations and networking opportunities for teacher-scholars. TLC at APSA aims to promote scholarly reflection and dissemination of tools, strategies, and pedagogical approaches that enable educators to develop and promote inclusive and democratic forms of political science pedagogy, civic literacy, and engagement\u2014both in the classroom and the public sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#e3f1ff\"><strong>\u2023<\/strong> <strong>About the APSA Teaching &amp; Learning Conference <\/strong><br><br>The&nbsp;<strong>APSA Teaching and Learning Conference&nbsp;(TLC)<\/strong>&nbsp;and the <strong>annual TLC at APSA <\/strong>conferences focus not only on the exchange of ideas but also on building a community of teacher-scholars within APSA, who support one another, promote best practices in teaching and learning, and innovate pedagogical theory and evidence-based practices through research. The conference fosters an exchange of ideas about creating a more diverse, inclusive, and engaging classroom. By building connections with colleagues from a variety of subfields, experiences, institutions, and identities, the 2026 TLC at APSA will empower educators to reflect, innovate and imagine how to confront the perils and promises of the project of democracy.<br><br>We invite proposals for four types of submissions:<br><br>(1) <strong>Teaching and Learning workshops<\/strong> provide opportunities to practice meeting the varied challenges of understanding, protecting, and rebuilding democracy through the classroom and with the class engagement with the broader community.&nbsp;(2) <strong>Roundtables<\/strong> focus participants on discussion and debate on a specific topic, facilitated by a group of roundtable participants. (13) <strong>Paper presentations<\/strong> investigate these themes through research. (4) <strong>Pedagogy Caf\u00e9 <\/strong>submissions will be part of the morning Pedagogy Caf\u00e9 session, a series of thematic tables with discussions facilitated by the submitters.<br><br>In contrast to previous years, <strong>tracks will emerge from the topics of the submissions<\/strong> rather than be pre-determined. Accepted proposals will be grouped by the TLC co-chairs into tracks that thematically relate programming across the content of the track and provide a way for faculty of similar interests and pedagogies to productively engage each other through mutual aid, where giants in the field, experts, and newcomers might find equal space intellectually and socially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Each year, TLC at APSA features:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#ffdc82\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br><strong>Teaching &amp; Learning Workshops<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">TLC at APSA teaching and learning workshops&nbsp;provide opportunities to practice meeting the varied challenges of teaching democracy in the classroom and community.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#ffdc82\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br><strong>Roundtable Discussions<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">TLC at APSA roundtables&nbsp;are designed for participants to discuss and debate on a specific topic, facilitated by a group of roundtable participants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column p { padding: 1em; } has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-color:#ffdc82\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br><strong>Paper Presentations<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">TLC at APSA paper presentations&nbsp;are designated tracks that investigate these themes through research are also invited.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>\u2023 Thank You to the 2026 TLC at APSA Program Committee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you to the 2026 TLC at APSA Program committee for their hard work and dedication in planning this year\u2019s TLC at APSA<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Co-chair: Matt Evans, Northwest Arkansas Community College<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-chair: Dale Mineshima-Lowe, Parami University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>La Della Levy-Edwards, College of Southern Nevada<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kim Lopez-Gallagher, New Mexico State University-Alamogordo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rafael Alexandre Mello, Bates College<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Liz Norell, University of Mississippi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Questions? <\/strong>Email us at <a href=\"mailto:teaching@apsanet.org\">teaching@apsanet.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 TLC at APSA APSA Annual Meeting &amp; Exhibition | Boston, MA | Saturday, September 5, 2026Theme: &#8220;(Re)building Precarious Democracy Through the Classroom&#8220; The proposal submission system is CLOSED. 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