Introduction

Supriya Sarnikar
Additional contact information
Supriya Sarnikar: Westfield State University

A chapter in What Can Behavioral Economics Teach Us about Teaching Economics?, 2015, pp 1-2 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A common theme in the many articles published by frequent contributors to the Journal of Economic Education is that economists undervalue teaching, place too much faith in traditional lecture-based teaching methods, and are generally apathetic to the problems that students face when learning economics. It is my belief that these inferences and conclusions are not representative of most economists. Rather, economists seem to adhere to many folk theories of what successful teaching looks like, and act on those folk theories. Until recently, due to the lack of a scientific framework for investigating learning processes, economists could be forgiven for viewing teaching as more art than science. It is the purpose of this book to show that a scientific investigation of learning processes—as opposed to an investigation of teaching methods or estimation of an input–output model of the education production function—is not only possible but also essential to improving economic and financial literacy. The first chapter is aimed at documenting the success, or lack thereof, of the economics profession in communicating its disciplinary knowledge to students of economics and to the general population.

Keywords: Teaching Method; Financial Literacy; Behavioral Economic; Instruction Design; Disciplinary Knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-49744-4_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781137497444

DOI: 10.1057/9781137497444_1

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().