Teaching Curve 29 Jochen Kleinschmidt and Margaryta Rymarenko on Teachers from the Global North Teaching IR in the Global South

This episode is a conversation with Jochen Kleinschmidt, a Research Associate and Coordinator of the Center for Latin American Studies (ZILAS) at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany, and Margaryta Rymarenko who has degrees from Central European University in Vienna Austria and who works for humanitarian organizations in Kyiv, Ukraine. Jochen taught at two institutions in Colombia from 2014 to 2020, and Margaryta was a CEU Global Teaching Fellow in Myanmar, teaching undergraduate students in Political Science and International Relations programs at the University of Yangon. They are co-authors of a forthcoming chapter on teaching IR Theory as visitors to classrooms in the Global South.

The episode explores 

•       The role of teachers, both generally and when teaching in cultures other than our own, in empowering students.

•       Problems that accompany the simplifications built into terms like Global South and Global North. 

•       Processes for helping students connect their personal experiences to the types of knowledge particular to the study of IR and global politics. 

The interview was edited for length.

Acknowledgements:

Thanks to the steering committee for the International Studies Association’s Innovative Pedagogy Initiative, the folks at ISA HQ, and special thanks to Sarah Dorr, Joel Lorenzatti and Josephine Anderson for logistical and technical support. 

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For 23 more stories about innovative and effective teachers of international studies, check out Pedagogical Journeys through World Politics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030203047