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"I want to do something for the world. Getting out of school with other students, learning with each other in practice at cool companies and thinking about their challenges. The Real...
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 during the national vo-day of...
De Week van het Economieonderwijs sloot feestelijk af met het slotevenement ‘Samen opleiden voor de toekomst’. Het was een rijke bijeenkomst waarin werd teruggeblikt op een week waarin professionals uit…
Higher education is bursting with ambition to shape future-proof economics education. This was evident Wednesday, Nov. 20, during the national college day of the Week of Economics Education. Even the...
On Tuesday, November 19, university teachers, professors, deans, program directors and academics from all over the country gathered at the Free University Amsterdam. What an inspiring day it was!
Several education professionals...
"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 a millionaire by age 20. That balloon...
From November 18 to 22, 2024, the 3rd edition of Economics Education Week took place. We look back on a rich week in which education professionals from all...
For many years, economics education has been the subject of debate, given its vital function: educating our society's most powerful technocrats. As James J. Heckman writes, it is...
On November 13, the Deansoverleg Economie en Bedrijfskunde (DEB) and ScienceWorks are organizing an Impactdag for the third time, this time in the center of Utrecht. The program consists of two...
Tegenlicht in the classroom: The economy of the future
Edited episode of VPRO Tegenlicht to use in economics class. Using this video and lesson plan, teach a...
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
Guides for designing a series of lessons on...
This practoral address is subtitled "From Fiddling with a Capital P to Accelerating in Transition. Among other things, this speech will highlight what you've been fast-tracking over the past five years,...
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 various economic theories.
Purpose Economy ...
Our society is changing and facing multiple interacting transitions. In the impact agenda published in 2023, the deans of the various universities in the Netherlands describe their joint...
This sector plan connects the higher economic education programs offered by 19 colleges through a common direction, ambition and structure. Higher economic education is a sector with enormous potential...
Textbooks in the mbo are too much based on one economic theory, argues lecturer in citizenship and sustainability Yorrit Luijckx. He developed the Module for the Future at Albeda in Rotterdam,...
Seeing sustainability not as something big, intangible and something that "must be done," but as an important social issue where college students can contribute their talents to concrete, meaningful solutions. At...
This publication by Lans Bovenberg and Mathijs Nicolai gives high school economics teachers tools to incorporate ethics, identity, citizenship and broad welfare into their economics education. The...
CORE Econ is free and publicly accessible learning materials that provide introductory economics lessons that focus on current social challenges such as rising inequality, climate change, concerns about the future of work...
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 two economics teachers of the future think...
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 as homo economicus has done more harm...
Nice article that appeared on MaatschapWij as part of Economics Education Week. In the article, economics teacher Bastiaan van der Broek is clear: economics education is undergoing a...
Nice article that appeared on MaatschapWij as part of Economics Education Week. The article is a plea for more diversity of economic thinking in classrooms and lecture halls....
The field of work for college and university economics students is changing. Globally, the emphasis of many companies is shifting from "continuing to grow" to "continuing to exist. Occupations in economic...
The September issue of the professional magazine From 12 to 18 published an article in response to Economics Education Week. In the article, Mathijs Nicolai (economics teacher at...
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 college students are to the growing...
As part of Circular Economy Week, this circular economy inspiration handbook for secondary schools was published. It contains links to videos, documentaries, quiz material, challenges and assignments, which vo teachers...
In collaboration with Vereniging Circulair Friesland and SPARK the Movement, Sumaya Husein developed 4 lessons on circular economy. The lessons introduce MBO students to circular economy and show what...
The NewBee Fest is all about innovative higher economic education. The festival is for everyone who wants to contribute to sustainable and future-proof higher economic education. Teachers learn there...
The Devil's Avocado is a short feature film that portrays the impact of three generations of entrepreneurs' business practices on the climate and local communities. The film...
How can we design economics lessons that consider not only the financial impact, but also people and the environment? Broadcaster HUMAN investigated it for the program...
A preview of the Week of Economics Education took place at Pakhuis De Zwijger on Wednesday, May 31. Led by Shinta Oosterwaal, panelists Floor Timmerman (HvA), Jasper Smit...
That prosperity does not equal well-being is demonstrated once again by CBS' recently released Broad Prosperity Monitor. The monitor shows that although there is...
This white paper from the Institute of Leadership and Social Ethics exposes the assumptions hidden in economic thinking: the assumption that humans function as Homo...
On Friday, March 10, Lans Bovenberg took his leave as professor at Tilburg University. He did so by delivering his farewell address entitled "Citizenship and sustainability in economics education: about...
Future-oriented economics education is alive, but looking for fulfillment
From November 14 to 18, the first edition of the Week of Economics Education took place. This week of, for and...
Economic Education Innovation Foundation (SIEO) wants to change the subject of economics in high schools so that students learn what economics is essentially about: relationships, cooperation and mutual interest. To this end,...
"Climate crisis, biodiversity, poverty, polarization, depression and burnout, they are all symptoms of the way we have designed our society in the service of neoclassical economics." Economics is for Kees...
Special broadcast of The New World TV for the Week of Economics Education. In this broadcast, philosopher Govert Buijs talks with Sam de Muijnck, chief economist of Our New...
Up-and-coming economists and business experts need recent insights to help politicians and businesses make the sustainability transition. Renewal is thus desperately needed, writes a broad coalition of (senior) teachers...
Although there is an increased focus on sustainability and inclusiveness in economics education in several places, standard teaching methods do not naturally align with this change. So argues Gilles van der Putt,...
There is too little attention in the economics curriculum in schools to the big social questions and ecological themes of today. That's what Govert Buijs thinks. That is why he took the...
In the September issue of the Journal of Economic Education, an article appeared on the occasion of Economics Education Week. The article is a plea for redesigning...
The Journal of Economic Education shows how Repair Cafe, Earth Pear and Clean Clothes Campaign contribute to solving social problems. This provides inspiration for incorporating into secondary school economics classes...
Article from the Journal of Economic Education in response to the report 'Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review'. With concrete suggestions to integrate concepts from the final exam program VO by a...
Podcast series with conversations about how to balance economics, ecology and philosophy. For education professionals in economics education, especially the broadcast with lecturer Meaning Economics Kees Klomp is a...
A conversation between lecturer Meaningful Economics Kees Klomp and designer and sustainable thinker Babette Porcelijn about the flaws in the economic system and how a bright future for everyone looks...
