The Innovative Teaching Methods Laboratory (“LabMEI”) is a project focused on thinking about the pedagogical process. LabMEI’s main objective is to promote subsidies for the improvement of teaching, research, and publishing conditions in the Graduate Program in Maritime Studies (“PPGEM”) and in the Naval War College (“EGN”). Through reflection and practice of teaching and learning, as well as by stimulating the development of innovative teaching and learning strategies, LabMEI seeks the didactic-pedagogical training of students, researchers, teachers, and instructors from EGN and PPGEM. LabMEI is co-coordinated by professors Marcelo M. Valença (EGN) and Ana Paula Tostes (Rio de Janeiro State University, UERJ).
Please find below our ongoing research projects, academic and technical production, and LabMEI production:
*Research Projects
2020-today – Storytelling and RPG in International Relations courses. Members: Marcelo M. Valença (coordinator); Ana Paula Tostes (coordinator); Luiza Bizzo Affonso (researcher); Ana Carolina Terra (researcher).
2018-2020 – Active Learning as a strategy to stimulate long-term information retention and student involvement. Members: Marcelo M. Valença (coordinator); Ana Paula Tostes (coordinator); Luiza Bizzo Affonso (researcher); Ana Carolina Terra (researcher).
2015-2018 – Active Learning in Brazil. Members: Marcelo M. Valença (coordinator); Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue (coordinator); Luiza Bizzo Affonso (researcher); Anelise Dutra Maciel (researcher); Marcelle Christine Bessa (researcher); Yesa Portela Ormond (researcher).
*Publications (peer reviewed)
3. VALENÇA, Marcelo M. Simulations and Pop Culture as tools to teach International Relations. Estudos Internacionais, v. 8, n. 1, 2020, p. 27-43. [In Portuguese].
2. VALENÇA, Marcelo M.; TOSTES, Ana Paula. Storytelling as a tool of active learning. Carta Internacional, v. 14, n. 2, 2019, 221-243. [In Portuguese].
1. VALENÇA, Marcelo M.; INOUE, Cristina Yumie Aoki. Active Learning Contributions to the Study of International Relations in Brazilian Universities. Meridiano 47, 2017. [In Portuguese]
*Books/Book chapters
5. MATOS, Jacques Alas; INOUE, Cristina Yumie Aoki; VALENÇA, Marcelo M. Teaching IR in the Global South: Views from Brazil and the Global South. In: Teaching International Relations, James M. Scott, Ralph G. Carter, Brandy Jolliff Scott e Jeffrey S. Lantis (eds.). Northampton: Edward Algar Publishing, 2021 (forthcoming).
4. VALENÇA, Marcelo M. “Disciplinary Dungeon Master“. In: Pedagogical Journeys Through World Politics: Adventures in Teaching, Jamie Frueh (ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, p. 209-218.
3. VALENÇA, Marcelo M.; INOUE, Cristina Yumie Aoki (eds.). Relações Internacionais no Brasil: ensino e aprendizado ativos e outras histórias. Campina Grande: Editora Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, 2018.
2. VALENÇA, Marcelo M.; ASSAYAG, Manoela. “Simulações e Aprendizado em Relações Internacionais“. In: Marcelo M. Valença e Cristina Inoue (eds.). International Relations in Brazil: active teaching, active learning, and other stories. Campina Grande: Editora Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, 2018. [In Portuguese]
1. VALENÇA, Marcelo M.; INOUE, Cristina Yumie Aoki. “O Ensino de Relações Internacionais no Brasil“. In: Marcelo M. Valença e Cristina Inoue (eds.). International Relations in Brazil: active teaching, active learning, and other stories. Campina Grande: Editora Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, 2018. [In Portuguese]
Further information about LabMEI may be requested via e-mail to its coordinator, professor Marcelo M. Valença, or at the LabMEI website.