WORKSHOP:EAGER: Enriching Political Science

该项目的具体目标是编写一份报告，根据许多国家人口组成、大学生群体的变化以及政治学专业多样化的持续挑战，对当前的政治学研究和实践进行积极和建设性的讨论和探索。与许多研究学术界人口变化所驱动的文化多样性挑战的方法不同，多样性不应局限于简单的“附加”到传统的方法和实践中，这些方法和实践将其与简单的学生入学率、博士学位的产生和博士学位的产生联系起来。的，和教师招聘。相反，多样性应该被视为一个足够丰富的概念，以打开一扇窗户，政治学可以考虑扩大其研究议程，重新概念化其教学技术，并在人口和社会经济复杂性增加所带来的挑战的背景下创造新的专业发展实践的方式进行严格的讨论。该项目的主要智力价值是促进更深入地了解如何整合导致文化多样性的人口变化可以丰富该学科研究和实践的基本层面。该项目的更广泛影响将成为其他专业协会考虑如何将文化多样性纳入其研究和实践的典范。这样，更广泛的学术界将有机会评估在何处以及如何修改、调整或保持传统的方法和做法，以进一步将文化多样性纳入其专业的主流。最广泛地说，这个项目系统地探讨了学科和我们的社会的种族和民族融合可以携手发展的可能性。

The specific goal of this project is to produce a report that will initiate a spirited and constructive discussion and exploration of the current study and practice of political science in light of changes in the demographic composition of many nations' populations, their university student bodies, and the continuing challenge of diversifying the profession. Unlike many approaches to studying the challenges of cultural diversity driven by demographic change within scholarly communities, diversity should not be limited to a simple "add-on" to traditional approaches and practices within the profession that link it to simple descriptive statistics of student enrollment, production of Ph.D.'s, and faculty recruitment. Rather, diversity should be seen as a concept sufficiently rich to open a window to a rigorous discussion of the ways that political science can consider broadening its research agendas, reconceptualizing its teaching techniques, and creating new practices of professional development in the context of the challenges posed by increased demographic and socioeconomic complexity. The primary intellectual merit of the project is promoting a deeper understanding of how integrating demographic transformations that lead to cultural diversity can enrich fundamental dimensions of the study and practice of the discipline. The broader impact of the project will be to serve as a model to other professional associations as they consider how to integrate cultural diversity within their study and practice. In this way, the broader scholarly community will be given the opportunity to assess where and how it can modify, adapt, or maintain traditional approaches and proactices to further bring cultural diversity with the mainstream of their professions. Stated most broadly, this project systematically explores the possibility that the racial and ethnic integration of academic disciplines and our societies can develop hand in hand.