Rethinking Pedagogy: An Outcome-Based Approach to Political Science

Abstract

This article is a discipline-based exploration of the possibilities and prospects of outcome-based education (OBE) in the teaching–learning process of political science at the under graduate level. Developing knowledge-empowered citizenry with critical political consciousness that enables it public policy debates is the key purposes of teaching political science. A serious deficit of the present mode of teacher/curriculum centric teaching–learning process, which fails the cause of imparting such qualities equipping the learner in developing self-critical/self-reflexive knowledge base, is the absence of analytical faculty and criticality. This article seeks to demonstrate the pedagogic advantages and quality assurance plausible in the political science higher education of India through the implementation of OBE.