From Challenging the Text to Constructing It in a Large Economics Classroom: Revealing the Not-So-Common Sense of the Capitalist Mode of Production

Brenda Spotton Visano

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2018, vol. 50, issue 1, 194-204

Abstract: This paper recounts a large class teaching process designed to encourage student critique, debate, and engagement. It focuses on an example of one in-class, small group exercise of negotiating ownership claims on a capital good and its output. The communal outcomes that students themselves negotiate contradict their prior taken-for-granted belief in the “rightness†of the capitalist mode of production and offer the class an opportunity to reflect on principles of fairness in resource distribution. JEL Classification: A13, A22, B51

Keywords: heterodox economics; critical pedagogy; economics education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613416665829

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