Diplomacy and Education: Teaching Resources
Teaching diplomatic practice—how to think about accomplishing policy goals and how diplomats accomplish their work in the 21st century—is a growing area of teaching in American universities but not one that has yet received much detailed study as to either content or methodology. To fill that gap the American Academy of Diplomacy and the International Center for Jefferson Studies organized a conference on diplomacy and education. The discussion ranged from Jefferson’s stress on the importance of an educated citizenry to alternative methods of teaching employed by former senior ambassadors. The intent of this web page is to capture much of that discussion in a way that may be helpful to those instructing in the general area of diplomatic practice, from regional and security studies to specific consideration of public diplomacy and how embassies do their jobs.
On this webpage you will find a number of tools:
- A summary of the workshop discussion on alternative teaching approaches
- An annotated index to the syllabi used by workshop participants that explains what their courses cover
- The individual syllabi
- Papers prepared for the conference that expand on the oral discussions and
- A summary of the overall conference.
We hope that you find this site useful and would welcome your feedback.
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Summary of Workshop Discussion