This semester I am once against tasked by my institution to introduce a new crop of students to the magical world of international relations theories. Yet, as many of us, who do that regularly, know, teaching theories in international relations can be a difficult feat, as many of our students (most of the time freshmen and sophomores) engage with abstract ideas/frameworks for the first time. In particular, keeping together the purpose of theories, why we have different ones, and what their core assumptions are in how they approach the world can be daunting – for both the student and the teacher tasked with that role. As a visual learner myself, I have adopted two measures in my classes to convey visually the meaning of theories and why we have them. Below, I briefly discuss them.
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