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With 2019 marking the fiftieth year of publication of the Journal of Economic Education (JEE), it seems fitting to examine the evolution of economic instruction as portrayed in the Journal. Born of the American Economic Association (AEA), and first edited by members of the AEA’s Committee on Economic Education (Saunders 2012Saunders, P. 2012. A history of economic education. In International handbook on teaching and learning economics, ed. G. M. Hoyt and K.McGoldrick, 3–31. Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar. [Google Scholar]), it is not surprising that the Journal’s focus as chronicler, proponent, and outlet for economic education activity reflects the educational component of the American Economic Association’s mission. The creation of the Journal signaled a self-awareness in the discipline that we needed to be more deliberate in thinking about how we teach economics and, as a discipline, take responsibility for the teaching enterprise at all levels in the United States. Furthermore, it has “serve[d] as a journal of ‘natural history’ of the teaching of economics” and a resource designed to document successful “techniques and patterns” so that future generations do not face the pitfalls that “human knowledge [as] a very perishable commodity” generates (Boulding 1969Boulding, K. E. 1969. Economic education: The stepchild too is father of man. Journal of Economic Education 1 (1): 7–11. doi: 10.1080/00220485.1969.10845291.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®], , [Google Scholar], 9, 10).
We provide an overview of the evolution of economic pedagogy over the past five decades as conveyed by the JEE.
From:
Gail M. Hoyt
University of Kentucky
KimMarie McGoldrick
University of Richmond
With 2019 marking the fiftieth year of publication of the Journal of Economic Education (JEE), it seems fitting to examine the evolution of economic instruction as portrayed in the Journal. Born of the American Economic Association (AEA), and first edited by members of the AEA’s Committee on Economic Education (Saunders 2012Saunders, P. 2012. A history of economic education. In International handbook on teaching and learning economics, ed. G. M. Hoyt and K.McGoldrick, 3–31. Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar. [Google Scholar]), it is not surprising that the Journal’s focus as chronicler, proponent, and outlet for economic education activity reflects the educational component of the American Economic Association’s mission. The creation of the Journal signaled a self-awareness in the discipline that we needed to be more deliberate in thinking about how we teach economics and, as a discipline, take responsibility for the teaching enterprise at all levels in the United States. Furthermore, it has “serve[d] as a journal of ‘natural history’ of the teaching of economics” and a resource designed to document successful “techniques and patterns” so that future generations do not face the pitfalls that “human knowledge [as] a very perishable commodity” generates (Boulding 1969Boulding, K. E. 1969. Economic education: The stepchild too is father of man. Journal of Economic Education 1 (1): 7–11. doi: 10.1080/00220485.1969.10845291.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®], , [Google Scholar], 9, 10).
We provide an overview of the evolution of economic pedagogy over the past five decades as conveyed by the JEE.
From:
Gail M. Hoyt
University of Kentucky
KimMarie McGoldrick
University of Richmond