Reforming Economics and Economics Teaching in the Transition Economies From Marx to Markets in the Classroom
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Edited by the late Michael Watts, formerly Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Economic Education, Purdue University, US and Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Education and William B. Walstad, John T. and Mable M. Hay Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US<i>'. . . the book has much that is of interest, especially in the country studies with the detailed information they provide about educational reform in the transition countries. It is of value to a number of readerships, especially teachers of economics, academics and others interested in the process of transition from state socialism and in emerging markets.'</i>
- W.J. Morgan, International Journal of Educational Development,
<i>'The book provides a fascinating overview of many of the issues, achievements and continuing difficulties involved in one of the central educational issues of recent years. The accumulation of country studies helps to provide a broadly consistent picture of problems and difficulties leavened by genuine successes and achievements. . . the book provides an excellent coverage of the issues and problems facing educators in those contexts and is to be commended to anyone interested in these issues, whether at academic or policy-making levels.'</i>
- Neil Kay, The Economics of Transition,
<i>'The volume is of greatest interest to those pursuing issues of the implementation of economics education and its impact at an elementary level on economic understanding and attitudes. Through generally careful statistical analysis it shows what can be done even in a most difficult environment, as well as the constraints on change imposed by Soviet legacies. It is a valuable addition to the literature on economics pedagogy.'</i>
- Richard E. Ericson, Slavic Review,
Nine of the chapters discuss specific countries - Belarus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. Other chapters describe reforms in the undergraduate economics curriculum at Moscow State University, Kiev State University, and Belarus State University. One chapter reports the findings from a five-nation study of the effect of economics programs to retrain teachers on the economic understanding of secondary students. Another chapter explains the important role of economic education in creating support for public policy reforms in a nation. The results from multi-national surveys of public attitudes toward economic reforms and the market economy are analyzed in one chapter. The book concludes with an insightful explanation of the major 'change agents' responsible for the reform of academic economics and the teaching of economics in the transition economies.
Anyone interested in economic education, transition economies, or educational reform in schools and universities will find this book a unique and fascinating reading.