Title: Educating students for the social economy: notes from the Czech Republic
Authors: Marie Dohnalova
Addresses: Civil Society Studies, The Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, U Krize 8, 158 00 Praha 5, Prague, Czech Republic
Abstract: Social economy and social enterprises offer alternative or complementary approaches to addressing social, economic and environmental problems, contributing to economic, social and cultural advancement. The purpose of this article is to foster a global dialogue, based on the tenets of pluralism, to revise and reform the economics curriculum in order to understand and foster the social economy.
Keywords: associations; cooperatives; foundations; mutual benefit corporations; social economy; social enterprises; social inclusion; Czech Republic; pluralism; economics education.
DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2009.028973
International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2009 Vol.1 No.1/2, pp.174 - 178
Published online: 16 Oct 2009 *
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