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Teaching Economics

Bill904 Wrote: Jul 03, 2012 1:21 PM

Actually, discovery learning is an older method of teaching concepts, one which we now know doesn't work. People left to discover things on their own don't discover very much. I'm not sure why you're associating discovery learning with liberalism. When it was in vogue, it had nothing to do with self-indulgent introspection, unless there's some "pop culture" form of discovery learning that has gained popularity outside the realm of cognitive science.

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Teaching Economics

Having taught economics at a number of colleges for a number of years, I especially welcomed a feature article in the June 22nd issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, on how economics courses with the same name can be very different at different colleges. It can also be very different when the course is taught by professors in the same department who have different approaches.

The usefulness of the three approaches described in the article depends on what the introductory course is trying to accomplish.

One professor taught the subject through a steady diet of mathematical models. If the introductory economics course...

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