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Teaching Economics in Troubled Times: Theory and Practice for Secondary Social Studies book cover

1st Edition

Teaching Economics in Troubled Times Theory and Practice for Secondary Social Studies

Edited By Mark C. Schug, William C. Wood Copyright 2011
232 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge
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In the Great Recession of 2007-2010, Americans watched their retirement savings erode and the value of their homes decline while the unemployment rate increased and GDP sank. New demands emerged for unprecedented government intervention into the economy. While these changes have a dramatic impact on society at large, they also have serious implications for the content and teaching of economics.... Read more

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

Biography

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.

"Teaching Economics in Troubled Times provides easy access to classic economics content and debates in light of the Great Recession. Readers will gravitate towards the practical strategies for teaching economics as a stand alone subject or through history courses. It is an invaluable resource for both pre-and in-service teachers of economics."

--Anand R. Marri, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Social Studies and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

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