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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