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...