John Simkin Posted December 31, 2003 Share Posted December 31, 2003 Richard Kimber of Keele University has produced a magnificent website for all teachers and students of Politics. He has successfully achieved his ambition of offering a gateway to the most significant resources relevant to political science on the Internet. Kimber has organized his material in several different ways. Area Studies gives access to information on individual countries. You can also find information by looking at the topics section such as constitutions, elections or political parties. http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Lyndon Posted January 4, 2004 Share Posted January 4, 2004 This is an excellent resource but noticeably missing is any reference to women and politics - to redress the imbalance you may want to refer to the following websites: The Women's Library http://www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk/ The Centre for the Advancement of Women in Politics http://www.qub.ac.uk/cawp/ The Fawcett Society http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/ 75 years of Women's votes http://www.votesforwomen.org.uk/ Pippa Norris, a leading feminist academic at Harvard has a variety of resources on her website: http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.pnorris.shorenstein.ksg/ Feminist.com http://www.feminist.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Simkin Posted January 5, 2004 Author Share Posted January 5, 2004 I have produced a comprehensive encyclopaedia of how British women got the vote. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/women.htm I have the same thing for the Americans. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwomen.htm I also have a page of annotated links to websites on Women’s History. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/REVhistoryW3.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Kroll Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 I find this website useful when teaching the left/ right paradigm and/or introducing ideologies. The students love doing the questionnaire and placing themselves on the grid next to people like Gandhi, Hitler, Stalin and Thatcher etc. The categories are based on Eyseneck's authoritarian/libertarian and economic left/ right model. www.politicalcompass.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Kroll Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 A useful online revision guide for most elements of the AS Government and Politics course. Pretty unexciting but it does the job.www.tutor2u.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 8, 2004 Share Posted January 8, 2004 I find this website useful when teaching the left/ right paradigm and/or introducing ideologies. The students love doing the questionnaire and placing themselves on the grid next to people like Gandhi, Hitler, Stalin and Thatcher etc. The categories are based on Eyseneck's authoritarian/liberatarian and economic left/ right model.www.politicalcompass.org Russel Tarr's What are your political beliefs exercise is another good starting point for understanding the political spectrum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Kroll Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 I find this website useful when teaching the left/ right paradigm and/or introducing ideologies. The students love doing the questionnaire and placing themselves on the grid next to people like Gandhi, Hitler, Stalin and Thatcher etc. The categories are based on Eyseneck's authoritarian/liberatarian and economic left/ right model.www.politicalcompass.org Russel Tarr's What are your political beliefs exercise is another good starting point for understanding the political spectrum It does look good. I have my doubts about Tony Blair popping up for the 'left wing view', though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 It does look good. I have my doubts about Tony Blair popping up for the 'left wing view', though! It is a little dated in that respect. A few years ago many of us thought Rev. Blair might have been left wing How wrong we turned out to be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UlrikeSchuhFricke Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 Thank you very much for the many websites about resources; unfortunately I cannot add any new ones. I can only add a problem: I teach at a German school but I teach Politics in English (at least in two of our four classes); in History (where we/I do the same) I have no problem using the English textbooks, but it is very difficult to find English/British politics textbooks which I can use in my lessons. In the classical political fields like particpation, elections, government etc. the textbooks concentrate on the British system - sometimes they add some information about the USA. It might be interesting to talk about nationalism and textbooks in this context. I am afraid German Politics boosk are as national as their British/American counterparts. The websites of the German government, the German parties and many German embassies offer information in English - so I can work with those, but very often the English used is very difficult and those pages are not concerned with didactic questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 This site was brought to my attention today. Perhaps more suitable as a Citizenship resource but interesting nonetheless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holger Kroll Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 (edited) www.nationstates.net is an online game which enables you to create your own state based on your political beliefs. Controversial issues are raised daily and feed into your country summary visible to other members. Good fun, not too serious & my A-level students are addicted to it! Check out the Republic for Reason and Equality for my entry. Edited March 9, 2004 by HolgKroll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Simkin Posted March 10, 2004 Author Share Posted March 10, 2004 Nation States is a simulation game for political students. You create your own country, fashioned after your own ideals, and care for its people. When you begin you will be asked to choose a name for your nation, a motto, a national animal, and a currency. Then you answer a short questionnaire about your politics. This will determine what sort of nation you end up with: authoritarian or permissive, left-wing or right-wing, compassionate or psychotic. Once a day, you'll be faced with an issue, and need to make a decision as to what to do about it. This determines how your nation evolves. http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Riley Posted June 29, 2004 Share Posted June 29, 2004 A useful online revision guide for most elements of the AS Government and Politics course. Pretty unexciting but it does the job.www.tutor2u.net Thanks for the link Holg. We've just employed someone to really update and upgrade the AS/A2 Politics materials over July and August - so they should be up to scratch for the start of the new term Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Simkin Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 We've just employed someone to really update and upgrade the AS/A2 Politics materials over July and August - so they should be up to scratch for the start of the new term Great website. I have included it in today's Education on the Internet. It currently has 51,820 subscribers. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/internet127.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jones (2) Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Hello, The four links links pages at our health & social care website includes a political care domain: * Interpersonal; * Sociological; * Empirical; * Political (Autonomy) Please see - Political: http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/linksIV.htm The other pages also involve 'politics' - mental health, accessibility. I hope this is relevant to you. Yours sincerely. Peter Clinical Specialist: NHS Care Records Service / Informatics Lancashire Care NHS Trust h2cm webmaster/Contributor Beechurst Unit Chorley Lancashire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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