Economics education

Programs in Economics

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Economics education or economic education is a field within economics that focuses on two main themes:

  • The current state of, and efforts to improve, the economics curriculum, materials and pedagogical techniques used to teach economics at all educational levels; and
  • Research into the effectiveness of alternative instructional techniques in economics, the level of economic literacy of various groups, and factors that influence the level of economic literacy.[1]

Economics education is distinct from economics of education, which focuses on the economics of the institution of education. This article discusses the field conceptually, and also provides a general outline of the typical curriculum.

  1. ^ " W.E. Becker (2001), Economic Education," International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, pp. 4078-4084. Abstract.