Short description:

Drawing together international perspectives and disciplinary sub-fields of comparative and global social policy, this book provides an insightful guide for educators and academics embarking on or revisiting the design and teaching of classes, courses and programmes in and around social and public policy.

Long description:

Drawing together international perspectives and disciplinary sub-fields of comparative and global social policy, this book provides an insightful guide for educators and academics embarking on or revisiting the design and teaching of classes, courses and programmes in and around social and public policy.

Teaching Social Policy captures the multi-disciplinary and multi-layered scope of social policy, exploring how this enables versatility in teaching and extends opportunities to expand knowledge and skills that may otherwise remain untapped. Chapters present ideas and examples of teaching activities to support learning in social policy, with a specific focus on approaches and tools to decolonise the social policy curricula. Serving as a practical guide for scholars teaching social policy, the book maps the terrain of student learning and explores novel ideas for teaching within the context of contemporary challenges facing higher education.

Offering ideas, reflections and guidance on the challenges and benefits of internationalising and decolonising the curriculum, this dynamic book will be an invaluable resource for higher education educators, early career academics and course designers with an interest in social policy, social administration, sociology and public policy.

?Boasting an excellent array of contributors, this refreshing and insightful guide supports instructors in reimagining and recontextualizing established debates, and asserting the racialised and patriarchal underpinnings of social policy. Whether you are thinking of developing a new course, unit or programme, or updating and revising established material, this text is a ?must-read.? It is also relevant for all instructors seeking to move the empirical and analytical focus of their teaching beyond national boundaries, thereby increasing the relevance and appeal to a diverse student body.?

Table of Contents:

Contents:

Foreword xii
Acknowledgements xiv
1 International, comparative and global perspectives in
social policy teaching: introduction 1
Zoë Irving

PART I EXPLORING THE SCOPE OF
INTERNATIONAL, COMPARATIVE AND
GLOBAL SOCIAL POLICY TEACHING
2 What counts as ?social policy? in comparative,
international and global context? 13
Kevin Farnsworth
3 Teaching comparative and international social policy
through the lenses of political economy 26
Niccolo Durazzi and Markus Ketola
4 Comparative theoretical and methodological approaches
in social policy teaching 42
Ijin Hong
5 Bringing the world beyond welfare states back into social
policy teaching 57
Ndangwa Noyoo
6 Teaching about global social policy 71
Noémi Lendvai-Bainton
7 Teaching about the role of ideas in social policy 85
Daniel Béland and Ronen Mandelkern
8 Race matters in teaching about international social policy
and protection 98
Lata Narayanaswamy
9 Bringing gender into teaching social policy in
international comparative and global context 115
Julia Lux

PART II CONTEXT AND TOOLS IN TEACHING
AND LEARNING INTERNATIONAL,
COMPARATIVE AND GLOBAL SOCIAL POLICY
10 Adding the social to the public, and the international to
the social: the study of social and public policy, old and new 130
Gaby Ramia
11 Teaching qualitative research in comparative social policy 145
Sirin Sung
12 Teaching international and comparative policy analysis 159
John Hudson
13 Asynchronous online learning and teaching: principles of
programme design, teaching practice, and study support 172
Enrico Reuter
14 Designing a social policy curriculum for international,
comparative and global learning 187
Zoë Irving
15 Useful sources in social and public policy teaching ? an
annotated collection of contributor choices 202
Edited by Zoë Irving

Index