Social Provisioning as a Starting Point for Feminist Economics

The past decade has seen a proliferation of writing by feminist economists. Feminist economists are not identified with one particular economic paradigm, yet some common methodological points seem to be emerging. I propose making these starting points more explicit so that they can be examined, critiqued, and built upon. I use the term “social provisioning” to describe this emerging methodology. Its five main components are: incorporation of caring and unpaid labor as fundamental economic activities; use of well-being as a measure of economic success; analysis of economic, political, and social processes and power relations; inclusion of ethical goals and values as an intrinsic part of the analysis; and interrogation of differences by class, race-ethnicity, and other factors. The paper then provides brief illustrations of the use of this methodology in analyses of US welfare reform, gender and development, and feminist ecological economics.     

Applications of Generative Learning for the Survey of International Economics Course

Generative learning provides students with opportunities to organize course content, integrate new content with students' current knowledge, and elaborate on course content by making connections to real-world events. These opportunities promote less reliance on professors' lectures and simultaneously create more self-reliance among students. The authors offer categories of generative learning strategies and briefly discuss their merits. They offer ideas for implementing generative strategies into the day-to-day events of an economics course. Although the authors use a survey of international economics course as their example, the ideas in this article could be applied in a variety of economics courses.     

How Departments of Economics Evaluate Teaching

Based on results from a 1999 national survey, William Becker and Michael Watts found that student evaluations of teaching were by far the most widely used, and often the only method used by economics departments, to evaluate teaching in undergraduate economics courses. To investigate whether departments of economics have moved beyond the use of student evaluations of teaching, in 2011 the current authors conducted a national survey of departments based largely on questions used in the 1999 survey. The surveys included items on how courses and teaching are evaluated, and on how that information is used in departmental promotion and salary decisions.     

英语词块教学对韩语教学的启示

近年来,随着语料库语言学的发展,词块的学习显得越来越重要。通过分析中国韩语教学中出现的问题,试将英语中词块教学法运用于韩语教学,并且试着提供几种有效地途径来解决这些问题,从而帮助学习者提高韩语能力,帮助教学者更加有效地教授韩语。     

《产业经济学》教学内容改革探索

针对学生经常反映《产业经济学》理论性太强、比较难理解的现状,在重新修订课程教学大纲、培养目标的基础上,我们选定了合适的教材,重点对课程内容进行了甄选。同时,在教学过程中突出重点、讲透难点,以案例讲解、产经新闻解读方式,使课程主要理论内容与现实产业发展紧密结合,有效地提高了学生学习兴趣,改善了教学效果。     

The Scholarship of Teaching Economics

The authors report on the results of a telephone survey of 1,001 employees of seven large corporations conducted for the Business Roundtable as part of its public policy program. A set of 20 questions keyed to the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics was embedded in the survey. A measure of economic literacy was constructed from the survey results. Greater economic literacy was associated with more overall education, more college economics coursework, high incomes, and being male. An examination of individual test questions revealed that previous college economics had substantial effects on employees' current economic literacy.     

西方经济学本科教学改革探讨

西方经济学是经济管理类本科专业的基础性必修课程,其教学效果的好坏直接影响学生对其他相关课程的掌握程度。然而当前一些本科院校西方经济学课程的教学效果并不理想。如何对该课程进行科学革新,更好地发挥其基础性地位,进而帮助学生更好地掌握专业知识,是本课程教学改革的主要目标。     

Teaching Economics to Undergraduates in Europe: Volume,Structure, and Contents

The structure and contents of undergraduate programs in economics and management sciences differ among the major European universities. Based on analyses of curriculums, course syllabuses, and adopted textbooks, the author looks at how much time is spent in pertinent programs, how time is allocated among different courses within programs, what common thematic denominators exist, and finally and most importantly, whether and in what way content taught in micro and macro courses differs. Based on examinations of how the coverage in major textbooks has evolved through successive editions, he also looks for trends and cycles in what is taught in undergraduate micro and macroeconomics.     

Online Teaching Resources: A New Journal Section

Most economics departments use end-of-term student evaluations of teaching, but the relationship between instructors' assessments of their own teaching and their students' assessments is unknown. The background survey for the nationally normed Test of Understanding in College Economics asked students and instructors to evaluate the instructor on five identical items. Using these data, the authors found that for instructors who speak English as their native language, speaking ability and enthusiasm are closely linked to self-ratings of teaching effectiveness. Students also value these traits but care more about instructors' preparation for class. Grading rigor is more important to students of instructors who speak English as a second language.     

Research in Economic Education and the Teaching of Economics

Input cost and output value are depicted in a diagram of vertical slices of the production function surface.     

Behavioral Objectives and Student Learning Contracts in the Teaching of Economics

The authors present a series of writing assignments that teaches students how to evaluate and critique the written economic work of others. The foundation text is McCloskey's (2000) Economical Writing. The students' dialogues with McCloskey, with each other, and with the authors of the pieces they evaluate sharpen their understanding of, and ability to use, language as an instrument of economic thought. Interviews with former students identify specific benefits from the student perspective of this approach. The authors show how the assignment series can be modified in several ways and how the general approach, as well as the foundation text, can be used in different economics courses.     

Teaching Economics in the Schools: A Review of Survey Findings

The authors review and contrast the findings of a 1981 national survey of economic education at the precollege level and 15 state surveys conducted at about the same time. The picture that emerges is disturbing: instruction in economics tends to be minimal (or nonexistent) for many students, and teacher training in economics is limited. Curriculum structure, teacher training, and the development and use of materials are interrelated problems facing economic education.     

基于能力拓展的财经类本科生《营销学》教学改革研究

从拓展学生专业能力的角度而言,财经类本科生《市场营销学》教学改革首先要重视对学生的以“态度”、“细节”和“习惯”为基础的学习规划能力的培养。在此基础上,《营销学》教学内容要适应服务型经济对市场营销人才的要求;教学模式要突出互动性;应从现实可能性出发,切实加强《营销学》教学的实践环节;必须建立和完善本科生《营销学》学习成绩评价系统。     

谈心是政治思想工作的好抓手

新的形势下,竞争的激烈,生活节奏的加快,工作、心理压力也日趋增强,不可避免地存在着不和谐因素。有的人谈心能够让人茅塞顿开,越谈感情越密切;而有的人谈心却适得其反。谈心要特别注意＂四种方法＂的运用,在＂要有六心＂上下工夫,要防止产生四种倾向,这样就能收到事半功倍的效果。     

案例教学法在理论经济学教学中的探索与实践

在马克思主义理论经济学教学中引入案例教学法是符合教学改革的趋势的,能有效调动学生学习的积极性,提高学生的综合素质。理论经济学中采用案例教学,要求精心选择教材,精心选择案例,精心组织分析及总结等。加强对案例教学的教师培训教育,与其他教学方法相配合,能更好地搞好理论经济学教学工作。     

西方经济学教学基础——经济情景

文章从西方经济学理论特性以及本科教学中存在的问题出发,研究了情景教学在西方经济学教学中的应用条件,提出了如何有效的实现情景与理论的融合,以达到提高教学效果的目的。研究结果表明:西方经济学理论具有理论和实践的不可分性、图形与数学模型的结合、假设条件的苛刻性以及理论的环境选择性等特点;教学中面临着本科生经济敏感性差、本土案例缺乏、理论在应用中的灵活性等问题;情景教学应用的条件是,学生理解理论提出的背景、学生进行情景体会、本土案例的开发。     

Teaching Regressions with a Lagged Dependent Variable and Autocorrelated Disturbances

The author attempts to rectify the unsatisfactory textbook treatment of the finite-sample properties of estimators of regression models with a lagged dependent variable and autocorrelated disturbances. He contends that the bias of the OLS estimator of a regression model with a lagged dependent variable and autocorrelated disturbances is determined by two effects, the dynamic effect and the correlation effect, which may be reinforcing or offsetting. The implications of these two effects are explored within a theoretical and a Monte Carlo framework.     

Social Economics and Evolutionary Learning

The major premise of this paper is that social and individual well-being depends significantly on people's capacity to learn and unlearn in communication with each other. This paper builds on social economic traditions that see communication and conversation as evolutionary generative and adaptive mechanisms through which individual and social learning occurs. Drawing on educational psychology and organizational behavior scholarship, five dynamic processes of conversational learning are introduced with the contention that they can help social economists understand at a micro level more deeply and more concretely how learning happens in the give-and-take of conversation. The paper explores the role of the state, organizations, and communities in fostering individual freedom and dignity, human rights, and economic democracy and concludes that the investment of value in people and their capability for purposeful action as social economic stakeholders can be enhanced through conversation as learning.     

财经院校大学语文课程定位及教学改革

大学语文以人文素质培养为中心,财经院校人才培养目标有其独特定位：围绕应用型、创新型人才目标,结合专业特色、师资队伍建设和学生学习现状,突出大学语文自身的独特实用性。在大学语文教学改革中,应将实用性作为基础教育和财经专业教育的链接点,以趣味性作为教师引导和学生学习过程的主线。     

在新的更高起点上谋划长三角地区的更好更大发展

近日,国务院总理温家宝在上海主持召开长江三角洲地区经济社会发展座谈会,要求进一步解放思想,推进改革开放,充分发挥区域优势,促进长江三角洲地区实现早先发展、科学发展,增强综合实力,创新能力、可持续发展能力和国际竞争力.