7 Top tips

• Encourage the students to write essays in which they have to argue for a position.
• Stress the role of history in economics and economic thought.
• Comparison is difficult so students must be guided through the process: explain the teaching strategy you are using.
• Structure the module/course so that competing perspectives are reinforced: start early and repeat often.
• Use/construct readers as a substitute for or complement to textbooks.
• Use autobiographical accounts to show how economists change their mind and why.
• Offer extensive feedback on assignments - perhaps create space for this by refusing to give advanced guidance.