Title: Facilitating student learning through engaging prior learning: an exercise in development of agency

Authors: Zohreh Emami

Addresses: Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI 53234, USA

Abstract: This paper discusses an exercise that bookends an introductory course in economics for non-majors that draws on their prior learning and attempts to provide them the opportunity for reflection and self-awareness. The course aims to help students enter economic conversations by engaging their capacity for moral imagination and developing their sense of agency.

Keywords: teaching and learning; cognitive science; prior learning; transfer; reflection; self-awareness; feminist economics; social economics; pluralism; abilities-based curriculum; student learning; agency; introductory courses; economics education; moral imagination.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPEE.2015.072594

International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 2015 Vol.6 No.2, pp.198 - 205

Published online: 21 Oct 2015 *

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