Title:
Teaching economics to undergraduates : alternatives to chalk and talk
Author:
Watts, Michael.
ISBN:
9781858989723
9781840642704
Publication Information:
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : E. Elgar, c1998.
Physical Description:
xvi, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Foreword / William J. Baumol. 1. Teaching Economics: What Was, Is, and Could Be / William E. Becker and Michael Watts -- Active and Cooperative Learning. 2. Making Cooperative Learning Work in Economics Classes / Robin L. Bartlett. 3. Gender and Active Learning / Maureen J. Lage and Michael Treglia. 4. Student Decision Making as Active Learning: Experimental Economics in the Classroom / Charles Noussair and James Walker -- Writing, the Internet, and Discovery Through Sampling. 5. Integrating the Practice of Writing into Economics Instruction / W. Lee Hansen. 6. Using the Internet and Computer Technology to Teach Economics / Kim Sosin. 7. Using Monte Carlo Studies for Teaching Econometrics / Peter Kennedy -- Examples from the World Around Us. 8. Using Sports to Teach Economics / John J. Siegfried and Allen R. Sanderson. 9. Using Literature and Drama in Undergraduate Economics Courses / Michael Watts. 10. Acceptance Speeches by the Nobel Laureates in Economics / William J. Zahka.
11. Using Cases as an Effective Active Learning Technique / Stephen Buckles. 12. Engaging Students in Quantitative Analysis with the Academic and Popular Press / William E. Becker.
Abstract:
This book demonstrates alternatives to the lecture and chalkboard approach that dominates the teaching of economics, providing a range of innovative teaching techniques and examples aimed at engaging undergraduates in the learning of economics. This book will be of great practical value to teachers of economics as well as to administrators responsible for undergraduate instruction.