[URPE] Heterodox pedagogy workshop

[Jean Shackelford]

The January 5, 2006 URPE/IAFFE/AFEE Sponsored Pedagogy workshop is 
now about 8 weeks away.  Below is additional information about each 
session prepared by the Workshop team.    Please feel free to post 
this information and  circulate the invitation to interested 
colleagues.
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Pedagogy Workshop-January 5, 2006
Heterodox Content: Ideas for Integrating, Including and Innovating in 
the Economics Classroom
Simmons College, Boston, MA

We invite you to a pedagogy workshop designed not only for graduate 
students embarking on full time teaching assignments, but also for 
seasoned veterans searching for a day-long infusion of conversation 
and discussion about teaching.

Schedule
Morning Session - Mainstream Theory-Critical Insights

8:30 - Coffee and Introductions

9:00 - 10:00 - Julie Matthaei (Wellesley College) will use this 
session to present an introductory microeconomics course which is 
based on a mainstream text, Case, and Fair, but integrates radical 
analysis and readings throughout.   It will present ways to use key 
theoretical constructs of mainstream economics --  the production 
possibility frontier, the circular flow, and supply and demand curves 
- as springboards for teaching radical views.  It will also examine 
the ways in which the core focus of microeconomics on individual 
choice can be used to introduce radical insights about values, 
consumerism, and socially responsible choices.  This involves 
challenging students to reflect upon their current and future 
economic decisions as consumers, workers, and/or entrepreneurs, and 
to understand the ways in which current economic practices and 
institutions shape them.   A detailed syllabus and hand-outs will be 
provided.

10:20-11:20 - Gil Skillman (Wesleyan University) continues by 
exploring how the methods and concepts of mainstream economics can be 
used in discussing heterodox concerns.  Doing so has the pedagogical 
advantage that students with the standard background in introductory 
economics can readily see the basis for heterodox critiques without 
having to learn a new theoretical language.  For example, we'll 
discuss some basic game-theoretic representations of different forms 
of conflict and draw out their implications.  The emphasis of this 
approach is on getting one's students comfortable with applying given 
ideas and theories to see how they work and what they say.

11:30-12:30 - Shyamala Raman (Saint Joseph College) finds that 
teaching at the margins is a theme that recurs in teaching 
non-economics-students economics courses, both within departmental 
and interdepartmental settings.  We'll first establish theoretical 
underpinnings grounded in mainstream, PE and feminist economics, a 
number (and wide variety) of thematic courses and modules important 
to students in economics, international studies, environmental 
studies, women's studies as well as other areas.  Women in the World 
Economy, Women, Work and Family in the Global South, and 
Microeconomics in Context are a few topics where students in any 
major can acquire and understand the theoretical constructs to 
insightfully explore and gain a deeper understanding of economics.

Lunch 12:30 - 1:15

Afternoon Sessions - Course Design/Remix

1:15-1:45 - Geoff Schneider and Jean Shackelford (Bucknell 
University) lead off the afternoon session with a discussion of 
course design/remix that will include strategies to organize, 
introduce, plan and incorporate aspects developed in the morning 
session along with ways to add in (and integrate) rather than add on 
ways to teach using video clips, service learning modules, writing 
assignments, multiple paradigms, and modern technologies.

1:50-3:30 - Participants will work with workshop team members on 
course development and design and/or assignment development and 
design for their existing or new courses.

3:30 - Celebrate and Assess

This workshop is sponsored by URPE, IAFFE, and AFEE
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Please register me for the " HETERODOX CONTENT: IDEAS FOR 
INTEGRATING, INCLUDING AND INNOVATING IN THE ECONOMICS CLASSROOM," on 
January 5, 2006. (Enrollment for the workshop is limited.)
Name: _______________________________________________
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Workshop Registration:   $35 students; $50 IAFFE/AFEE/URPE Members; 
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Please send registration  to: Barbara Krohn, AFEE, Department of 
Economics, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA   Tel: (O) 
570-577-3648 Fax: 570-577-2372 (afee at bucknell.edu)

Suggestions for the remainder of the day:

4:00 -5:30  URPE Special labor panel, In the Commonwealth of Toil:  A 
Roundtable on Massachusetts Labor Movements.  Randy Albelda of 
UMass/Boston will moderate.  Panelists are Thea Lee (AFL-CIO trade 
lobbyist), Jim Green (UMass/Boston labor historian), Susan Moir 
(Director of the Labor Research Center at UMass/Boston), and Chuck 
Turner (Boston City Councillor and labor activist for workers of 
color).

6:30 - 9:30 p.m.  - Don't Blame Wal-Mart: Making Sense of Corporate 
Social Responsibility Robert B. ReichUniversity Professor, University 
of California-Berkeley, and former U.S. Secretary of Labor
ASE Opening Plenary Session and Reception, Hilton--Belvidere 
Ballroom, Deborah Figart, Richard Stockton University, Presiding.

-- 
Jean Shackelford
Department of Economics
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA  17837

570-577-3441 (O)
570-577-3451 (FAX)

jshackel at bucknell.edu
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/jshackel