Teaching Economics in Troubled Times

Theory and Practice for Secondary Social Studies
Herausgeber: Schug, Mark C; Wood, William C

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers teachable overviews of the nature of complex economic crisis and the corollary changes in teaching economics that flow from long-held economic assumptions. This title provides both best practices for teaching economics in the social studies classroom and frameworks for teaching economics within different contexts.

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Teaching Economics in a Time of Unprecedented Change is a one-stop collection that helps pre- and in-service social studies teachers to foster an understanding of classic content as well as recent economic developments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415877725
• ISBN-10: 0415877725
• Artikelnr.: 29980505

Autorenporträt

Mark C. Schug is Professor Emeritus at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and former Director of the Center for Economic Education. William C. Wood is Professor of Economics and the Director of the Center for Economic Education at James Madison University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Mark C. Schug
William C. Wood
Part I: The Changing Economic Scene
1. What Every High School Student and Teacher Needs to Know about Economics
James Gwartney
Mark C. Schug
2. Maynard Keynes: Dead But Not Forgotten
Scott Niederjohn
3. Free Trade: Helping Ourselves While Helping Others
Dwight R. Lee
4. Public Choice and Behavioral Economics: Implications for Instructors
Angela M. Smith
William C. Wood
5. Morality of Markets: Classroom and Conscience
J.R. Clark
Mark Schug
Part II Making Economics Cool in School
6. A Challenging Assignment in Troubled Times: What Every First Year High
School Economics Teacher Needs to Know
Jane S. Lopus
7. A Jewel for Your School's Curriculum in Uncertain Economic Times: The
Advanced Placement Economics Course
John Morton
8. Vital Knowledge in Troubled Times: The Role of Personal Finance in
Economic Education
Michael S. Gutter
Selena Garrison
9. Entrepreneurship Education, When and Where it Counts: The American Dream
Youthpreneurship Program
Barbara Flowers
10. Economics in History: What Every High School Student and Teacher Needs
to Know
Lucien Ellington
Part III Research Finding in Economic Education
11. Best Economic Education Practices for Children
Philip VanFossen
12. What Research Tells Us about Teaching High School Economics
Michael Watts
William B. Walstad