Showing papers by "Mark K. McBeth published in 2021"
TL;DR: This article presented an approach to teach political polarization in an introduction to politics course using cognitive psychology concepts including confirmative bias, motivated reasoning, and other cognitive biases, which helps students to reflect on their own political biases.
Abstract: Political polarization and generational politics are important topics in contemporary political science classrooms. This article presents an approach to teaching political polarization in an introduction to politics course. Coauthored by two Generation Z students from the course and their Boomer Generation professor, the article provides conflicting views of young people and politics as found in the work of Robert Putnam and Russell Dalton. The article presents survey data on affective and issue political polarization from the course, including discussion by the two student coauthors of the survey results interpreting their generation’s political polarization. The course approaches the introductory politics course using cognitive psychology concepts including confirmative bias, motivated reasoning, and other cognitive biases. Teaching from this micro-level perspective helps students to reflect on their own political biases. The article provides concepts and readings for political science professors to use in replicating the course.
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TL;DR: In many public human resource management, ethics is not an important aspect of a public service education as mentioned in this paper, yet, it is often overlooked in many human resources education programs, which is a serious issue.
Abstract: With a solid foundation in public administration since the 1980s, few could argue that ethics is not an important aspect of a public service education. Yet, in many public human resource management...