Advancing Pluralism in Teaching Economics

This state-of-the-art compilation of diverse and innovative perspectives on the methodology and appliance of pluralist economics teaching addresses questions around the important of pluralistic teaching. The result is a diverse book on teaching economics in the contemporary classroom with ideas and examples drawn from around the world.

List of Contributors. List of Referees. Economics and its teaching at a critical juncture: Introduction, Samuel Decker, Wolfram Elsner and Svenja Flechtner. Part I: Why Pluralism is Important for (Teaching) a Serious Social Science: Foundations. 1 Pluralist economics: is it scientific?, Sheila Dow. 2 Monism in Modern Science: the Case of Economics, Frank Beckenbach. 3 Pluralism in Economics: Epistemological Rationales and Pedagogical Implementation, Jakob Kapeller. 4 In and Against Orthodoxy: Teaching Economics in the Neoliberal Era, Ben Fine. 5 An Outsider's Perspective: What can economics teaching learn from History Didactics?, Astrid Schwabe. Part II: International Perspectives on Pluralist Teaching. 6 Issues in Teaching of Economics and Pluralism in Brazil, Rafael Galvão de Almeida and Ian Coelho de Souza Almeida. 7 Economics Education in India: from Pluralism to Neo-Liberalism and to 'Hindutva', Sudipta Bhattacharyya. 8 China's Idiosyncratic Economics: An Emerging Unknown Monism Driven by Pluralism, Shuanping Dai. 9 The Need for an Independent Perspective: Teaching Economics in Ghana, Hadrat Yusif. 10 Teaching the euro crisis: What do students in Germany and France learn about the causes of Europe's economic crisis?, Philipp Kortendiek and Till van Treeck. Part III: Economic Textbooks: Failures and new Pathways. 11 "Waging the War of Ideas": Economics as a Textbook Science and Its Possible Influence on Human Minds, Silja Graupe. 12 The schoolmaster's voice: How professional identities are formed by textbook discourses in mainstream economics, Jens Maesse. 13 Why economics textbooks must, and how they can, be changed into a real-world and pluralist economics: The example of a fundamentally new complexity-economics micro-textbook, Wolfram Elsner. 14 What can we learn from school economics education?, Janina Urban. Part IV: The Prospects of Pluralism in Economics. 15 Explaining difference and diversity in an increasingly complex economics, John Davis. 16 Towards a critical and transdisciplinary economic science?, Samuel Decker. A Pluralist Economics Teaching is Practicable and Illuminating: A Conclusion, Samuel Decker, Wolfram Elsner and Svenja Flechtner. Index