Document Type
Article
Version
Author's Final Manuscript
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
This article reflects on my experience over the past twenty-five years in teaching undergraduate courses in comparative political theory, focusing primarily on texts from ancient China and ancient Greece. I focus on the promise and the difficulties of such courses, and offer suggestions for avoiding the latter, based upon my sense of the defining purpose of such teaching: not the development of a disciplinary specialty or sub-specialty, nor the theoretical promotion or underpinning of a political agenda, but as providing a key element of liberal education in a rapidly globalizing world.
Citation
Salkever, Stephen, "Teaching Comparative Political Thought: Joys, Pitfalls, Strategies, Significance" (2014). Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship. 26.
https://repository.brynmawr.edu/polisci_pubs/26
