What (if anything) is different about teaching and learning in politics?

As a subject taught within higher education, Politics is as healthy today as it has ever been. Having emerged as a distinct area of academic enquiry during the course of the twentieth century, it is now a well-established element of higher education. In the UK, for example, there are currently over 60 universities offering undergraduate degrees with nearly 25,000 students enrolled on a full or part- time basis (HESA, 2009). In the United States, the number of students graduating as majors in Political Science, Public Administration, Public Policy and International Relations had risen to over 50,000 per year in 2006 (APSA, 2010). There are Politics departments in universities and colleges in virtually every other country of the world providing opportunities for students to study the discipline. Whichever way you choose to look at this, there is an awful lot of Politics teaching and learning going on.