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Podcast series from ESB on the state of economics education. The world is changing rapidly, but is economics education changing with it? Based on interviews with students, students, teachers and experts, the creators discuss...
"We shouldn't teach our students the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still be able to function....
Where different perspectives collide, learning emerges: that was the focus of the NewBee Fest at the national college day of Economics Education Week....
During the national mbo day of Economy Education Week, some 200 teachers and students got to work on impact entrepreneurship. Spread across three locations,...
Teachers are often told what needs to be added to the curriculum, but rarely what can be taken out. During the national day of...
Article by Lans Bovenberg in ESB. In the article, Bovenberg argues that students in the upper grades of havo and vwo over the past 15 years have...
Podcast series from ESB on the state of economics education. The world is changing rapidly, but is economics education changing with it? Based on...
'Continent of Quality' is a book by economist Paul Schenderling, published in October 2025. The book revolves around the question of how Europe can create its own...
In the Journal of Economic Education, Marloes de Vries - retiring president of Zadkine's Executive Board and of industry group Trade...
Being a teacher means never standing still. Certainly not if you teach economics: a subject that dances to the rhythm of current events. The newspapers are there...
Podcast series by Aldo van Duivenbode and Nitie Mardjan on purpose-driven learning. Each episode, Aldo and Nitie learn from stories from education in which students...
Article by Bastiaan van der Broek and Sam de Muijnck in the Journal of Economic Education. The article was written for inspiration for the...
Regenerative economics Online textbook and syllabus on regenerative economics. Day for Change Workbook Workbook (and manual) that guides students (vmbo/havo/vwo economics and business)...
As long as financial economists are trained primarily with a one-sided view of returns, the connection between economics and society remains underexposed. While precisely financial economists have a...
The way we think about economics is in need of change, argue three economists from Wageningen University & Research. A longread shows how Eveline...
In The End of Democracy As We Know It!?, professor Arjen van Witteloostuijn analyzes the effects of overregulation, inequality and media polarization on the...
Teachers are often told what needs to be added to the curriculum, but rarely what can be taken out. During the national day of...
Article by Lans Bovenberg in ESB. In the article, Bovenberg argues that students in the upper grades of havo and vwo over the past 15 years have...
Podcast series from ESB on the state of economics education. The world is changing rapidly, but is economics education changing with it? Based on...
'Continent of Quality' is a book by economist Paul Schenderling, published in October 2025. The book revolves around the question of how Europe can create its own...
Being a teacher means never standing still. Certainly not if you teach economics: a subject that dances to the rhythm of current events. The newspapers are there...
Article by Bastiaan van der Broek and Sam de Muijnck in the Journal of Economic Education. The article was written for inspiration for the...
Regenerative economics Online textbook and syllabus on regenerative economics. Day for Change Workbook Workbook (and manual) that guides students (vmbo/havo/vwo economics and business)...
What are we actually teaching our students? What is of value, and what really belongs in our profession? These are questions that took center stage...
"Of course there is exam material that just has to be, but within that we have a lot of freedom. Income, money and entrepreneurship adolescents find interesting topics. Everyone wants to be on their...
This starting memorandum for the examination programs of human and social science subjects provides specific insight into the relevant and current developments for human and social science subjects in the...
Article in professional magazine "From 12 to 18" in which Ton Smakman (Economics teacher at Regius College in Schagen, and also active at the Vaksteunpunt Economie of VU...
This publication by Lans Bovenberg and Mathijs Nicolai gives high school economics teachers tools to give ethics, identity, citizenship and broad welfare a place...
During Economics Education Week 2023, fourth-year Economics Teacher Education students Eva Koot and Dirk Ridder organized the World Trade Game workshop. How do these...
As part of the Week of Economics Education, Govert Buijs speaks to Emeritus Professor of Economics Lans Bovenberg. According to him, the image of man has...
Nice article that appeared on MaatschapWij as part of Economics Education Week. In the article, economics teacher Bastiaan van der Broek is clear:...
During the national mbo day of Economy Education Week, some 200 teachers and students got to work on impact entrepreneurship. Spread across three locations,...
Podcast series from ESB on the state of economics education. The world is changing rapidly, but is economics education changing with it? Based on...
In the Journal of Economic Education, Marloes de Vries - retiring president of Zadkine's Executive Board and of industry group Trade...
"I want to do something for the world. Getting out of school together with other students, learning with each other in practice at cool companies and thinking along ...
MBO Challenge Food Waste In this database of webinars and lesson plans you will find materials for lessons on food waste and sustainable food chains. Summa Fairtrade Tools for the...
This practoral address is subtitled "From Tinkering with a Capital P to Accelerating in Transition. Among other things, this speech highlights what you...
Textbooks in mbo are too much based on one economic theory, argues lecturer in citizenship and sustainability Yorrit Luijckx. He developed at Albeda in Rotterdam...
Seeing sustainability not as something big, intangible and something that "must be done," but as an important social issue to which college students can contribute with their talents ...
Nice article that appeared on MaatschapWij as part of Economics Education Week. The article is a plea for more diversity in economic...
The field of work for college and university students in economics courses is changing. Globally, the emphasis of many companies is shifting from "continuing to grow" to "continuing...
In the September issue of the Journal of Economic Education, an article appeared on the occasion of Economics Education Week. The article highlights how important...
In collaboration with Vereniging Circulair Friesland and SPARK the Movement, Sumaya Husein developed 4 lessons on circular economy. The lessons introduce college students to circular...
The Devil's Avocado is a short feature film that paints a picture of the impact of the business practices of three generations of entrepreneurs on the climate and...
A preview of Economy Education Week took place at Pakhuis De Zwijger on Wednesday, May 31. Led by Shinta Oosterwaal, panelists went over...
Future-oriented economics education is alive, but looking for fulfillment From Nov. 14 to 18, the first edition of Economics Education Week took place....
Where different perspectives collide, learning emerges: that was the focus of the NewBee Fest at the national college day of Economics Education Week....
Podcast series from ESB on the state of economics education. The world is changing rapidly, but is economics education changing with it? Based on...
'Continent of Quality' is a book by economist Paul Schenderling, published in October 2025. The book revolves around the question of how Europe can create its own...
Podcast series by Aldo van Duivenbode and Nitie Mardjan on purpose-driven learning. Each episode, Aldo and Nitie learn from stories from education in which students...
"I want to do something, but what?" Many people, especially students, experience powerlessness or doubt about how they can contribute to a...
With the desire to overhaul our economic system, there is also an emphatic call to redesign our higher economic education. Traditional models and research skills...
The Six Capital Model allows students to look deeper "under the hood" of an organization. This model describes, in addition to the business model,...
The economics field comprises nearly 40% of the total number of college students, which is about 170,000 students annually. If they do not opt for an elective themselves,...
Higher education is bursting with ambition to shape future-proof economics education. This was evident Wednesday, Nov. 20, during the national hbo day of the Week of...
Economy Studies Teaching Packs Practical guide with lesson plans, powerpoints, assignments and test questions for designing economics instruction that challenges students to think critically about...
This sector plan links the higher economic education programs offered by 19 colleges through a common direction, ambition and structure. Higher economic education is...
As part of the Week of Economics Education, Govert Buijs speaks to Emeritus Professor of Economics Lans Bovenberg. According to him, the image of man has...
Nice article that appeared on MaatschapWij as part of Economics Education Week. The article is a plea for more diversity in economic...
On Oct. 12, 2023, the symposium "Whose Economics Education?" was held as a preview of Economics Education Week. To...
The field of work for college and university students in economics courses is changing. Globally, the emphasis of many companies is shifting from "continuing to grow" to "continuing...
"We shouldn't teach our students the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time and still be able to function....
Podcast series from ESB on the state of economics education. The world is changing rapidly, but is economics education changing with it? Based on...
'Continent of Quality' is a book by economist Paul Schenderling, published in October 2025. The book revolves around the question of how Europe can create its own...
As long as financial economists are trained primarily with a one-sided view of returns, the connection between economics and society remains underexposed. While precisely financial economists have a...
The way we think about economics is in need of change, argue three economists from Wageningen University & Research. A longread shows how Eveline...
In The End of Democracy As We Know It!?, professor Arjen van Witteloostuijn analyzes the effects of overregulation, inequality and media polarization on the...
ESB looks back at the national science education day (wo day) of Economics Education Week, and concludes that economics faculties should pay more attention to...
On Tuesday, November 19, university teachers, professors, deans, program directors and academics from all over the country gathered at VU University Amsterdam. What was it...
For many years, economics education has been the subject of debate, given its vital function: educating our society's most powerful technocrats. As James...
On Nov. 13, the Deansoverleg Economie en Bedrijfskunde (DEB) and ScienceWorks will organize an Impactdag for the third time, this time in the center of Utrecht....
CORE Econ CORE Econ provides free and publicly available teaching materials for introductory economics classes that focus on current societal challenges. Economy Studies Teaching Packs Teaching Packs...
Our society is changing and facing multiple interacting transitions. In the impact agenda published in 2023, the deans of the various...
CORE Econ is free and publicly accessible learning materials that provide introductory economics lessons that focus on current societal challenges such as increasing inequality, climate change, concerns...
Nice article that appeared on MaatschapWij as part of Economics Education Week. The article is a plea for more diversity in economic...
The Devil's Avocado is a short feature film that paints a picture of the impact of the business practices of three generations of entrepreneurs on the climate and...
Where different perspectives collide, learning emerges: that was the focus of the NewBee Fest at the national college day of Economics Education Week....
During the national mbo day of Economy Education Week, some 200 teachers and students got to work on impact entrepreneurship. Spread across three locations,...
Teachers are often told what needs to be added to the curriculum, but rarely what can be taken out. During the national day of...
Article by Lans Bovenberg in ESB. In the article, Bovenberg argues that students in the upper grades of havo and vwo over the past 15 years have...
Podcast series from ESB on the state of economics education. The world is changing rapidly, but is economics education changing with it? Based on...
'Continent of Quality' is a book by economist Paul Schenderling, published in October 2025. The book revolves around the question of how Europe can create its own...
In the Journal of Economic Education, Marloes de Vries - retiring president of Zadkine's Executive Board and of industry group Trade...
Being a teacher means never standing still. Certainly not if you teach economics: a subject that dances to the rhythm of current events. The newspapers are there...
Podcast series by Aldo van Duivenbode and Nitie Mardjan on purpose-driven learning. Each episode, Aldo and Nitie learn from stories from education in which students...
Article by Bastiaan van der Broek and Sam de Muijnck in the Journal of Economic Education. The article was written for inspiration for the...
Regenerative economics Online textbook and syllabus on regenerative economics. Day for Change Workbook Workbook (and manual) that guides students (vmbo/havo/vwo economics and business)...
As long as financial economists are trained primarily with a one-sided view of returns, the connection between economics and society remains underexposed. While precisely financial economists have a...
Week of Economics Education
During Economy Education Week, peers share how they enrich their teaching with new economic thinking and current social developments through workshops, presentations and sample lessons. It is the perfect time to engage with each other and feed each other with tips and inspiration.Â