%0 Journal Article
%T Engaging students as co
%A Alasdair Blair
%A Eleanor Mackillop
%A Steven Griggs
%J Politics
%@ 1467-9256
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0263395717728407
%X The teaching of political science has a tendency towards traditional classroom-based learning environments. This article describes the development of an innovative model of student learning that takes place outside the bounded nature of the established curriculum through the creation of a Policy Commission. The Policy Commission established an innovative ¡®community of action¡¯ that challenged traditional perceptions of the lone student as a producer of knowledge. This article describes the work of the Policy Commission, which engaged students in the act of ¡®doing Politics¡¯ and discusses the impact that it had on student learning. The article examines the potential of the Policy Commission model to offer a new form of learning
%K active learning
%K co-production
%K policy commission
%K politics
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0263395717728407