Teaching Of Economics In Schools Research Articles

The Teaching of Economics in Schools: A Problem in the Making?

Over the last decade there has been a sea change in student preferences towards undertaking business subjects instead of economics at secondary school. This paper suggests that the popularity of business subjects at secondary schools is one of the key factors behind the relatively static numbers undertaking economics at university. Detailed empirical evidence of the decline in economics education within Victorian secondary schools over a three-year period reveals an alarming portent for all economic instructors. The paper attempts to offer reasons why today’s generation of secondary school students remain strangely averse towards economics.

The Teaching of Economics in Schools and Universities

Journal Article The Teaching of Economics in Schools and Universities Get access Lionel Robbins Lionel Robbins London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 65, Issue 260, 1 December 1955, Pages 579–593, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227929 Published: 01 December 1955