This article reports on my experience teaching Sweatshops and the Global Economy. It describes exercises in political economy for engaging students in the study of sweatshops. Also taken up are my efforts to involve students in the debate among economists about sweatshops and the antisweatshop...

It is a major challenge to find ways to incorporate the principles of popular education into teaching economics. Students have significant experience of the economic system they live under, and some have heard of (or even studied) other models as well. The author has experimented with tapping...

Service and activist learning (SAL) and teaching about globalization can be mutually reinforcing pedagogies. SAL combines community activity with social analysis, attracting many students who want to make the world better. Integrating globalization helps them place local problems in the context...

This paper begins with a critique of the prevailing stimulus/response approach to economic education in which instructors communicate (typically via lecture) their view of economic reality and the student is expected to replicate that view. In the alternative constructivist approach, economic...

This article reports on an experiment aimed at developing a constructivist learning module focused on unemployment. The pedagogical aims include helping the student to construct a realistic picture of unemployment and to combat “blame the victim†ideological explanations of the...

This article discusses how to combine service learning, and specifically a living wage research project, with radical political economy-based undergraduate economics courses to promote critical thinking, civic engagement, and active learning in students. The authors explore how instructors can...