Decoding Political Thought

The responsibility for overcoming learning barriers in universities is too often placed on students. The framework of Decoding the Disciplines calls for a change of perspective by focusing on implicit knowledge as a learning obstacle. This Scholarship-of-Teaching-and-Learning study is dedicated to the decoding of political thought by conducting the first five steps of the decoding wheel. The steps are illustrated with a concrete example in a political theory seminar on the subject of power as a central concept in the work of Thomas Hobbes. As a tool, Conceptboard was used.