Principles for Teaching Economics and Social Science Education Discourse

Economics, Social Science and Development*

Development economics nowadays is mainstream economics applied to poor countries. An examination of the core principles of mainstream economics reveals tremendous strengths, but also tremendous weaknesses. Other disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology and political science, have complementary strengths that suggest a role for them as equal partners in development studies and policy. The ar...

Principles of Indigenous Education for Mainstream Teaching

This paper examines workable principles of indigenous education that can be applied to mainstream classrooms: finding each student’s gift, professionalism, using real objects and tools, practicums, apprenticeships, elders and older students as teachers, and observation. These principles are illustrated with personal teaching experiences and historical examples. While examining these principles,...

Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science

Will the Real Adam Smith Please Stand Up?: Teaching Social Economics in the Principles Course

Part of the difficulty of introducing social economics into the principles course is the perception that social economics is anathema to mainstream economics. 1 As noted by Warren Samuels, however, "neoclassical economics is already a form of social economics" despite its "pretensions of methodological individualism and value-neutrality" [Samuels, p. 2]. Heilbroner also makes the case that the ...

Teaching Integrity in Empirical Economics: The Pedagogy of Reproducible Science in Undergraduate Education