"Home is where the heart is”: learning and teaching political ideology through interior design

Harrison, O ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7869-671X, 2025. "Home is where the heart is”: learning and teaching political ideology through interior design. Journal of Political Science Education. ISSN 1551-2169

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Abstract

In the United Kingdom political ideology remains a core component of studying Politics and International Relations, yet despite varied innovations in the discipline, innovations in learning and teaching political ideology specifically are relatively sparse. Using a metaphor offered in Michael Freeden’s morphological approach and guided by the principles of active collaborative learning throughout, this article explores the potential of an original and technologically innovative activity designed to aide students’ conceptual understanding of three Western political ideologies - namely, Liberalism, Conservatism, and Socialism. Drawing on a sample of 36 volunteers from a year one, undergraduate political ideologies module, through a focus group discussion and questionnaire there was unanimous agreement as to the intended usefulness of the activity, as too, the creation of a collaborative, engaging, and memorable learning experience.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Political Science Education
Creators:	Harrison, O.
Publisher:	Informa UK Limited
Date:	29 January 2025
ISSN:	1551-2169
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/15512169.2026.2613646 DOI 2575771 Other
Rights:	© 2026 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Borcherds
Date Added:	13 Feb 2026 17:14
Last Modified:	13 Feb 2026 17:14
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/55278

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