Conference and seminar sessions in Communicating economics
The end of the news?
Keynote at DEE 2021,On the epistemological break in economics
Presentation at DEE 2019,Economic education has to connect to pre-existing knowledge but there is a widespread belief among economists that the public is ill-informed. This is reflected in a variety of surveys and studies which demonstrate this ignorance. We suggest that while the problem might be in the education, it might also be in "measurement". The measurement might merely reflect what we call an epistemological break. This break is not necessarily reflective of ignorance or false beliefs, but rather of the use of a different language and concepts that economists use for familiar concepts. Our paper conceptualises and illustrates the nature of that break, it helps improve the way we understand economic knowledge held by the public, and most importantly suggests some ways to bridge the epistemological gap through changes in economic education.
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Public understanding of economics
Presentation at DEE 2019,This session reports the first analysis of results from the 2019 ING-Economics Network Survey of Public Understanding of Economics and discusses potential implications for economics education and communication. The ING-Economics Network Survey was first run in 2017 and we also provide some comparisons with the earlier survey.
Communicating economics: a year in the frontline
Keynote at DEE 2017,Students as Communicators
Workshop at DEE 2017,This CTaLE workshop session will focus on teaching approaches to enhance students’ ability to communicate economics to different audiences. We will explore what effective communication actually means and whether/how we should teach communication skills to our students. Using our own teaching samples, we showcase teaching approaches which focus on communicating economics and encourage participants to explore ways to adapt them for their own teaching. Finally we will explore appropriate ways for feedback assessment of such communication skills.
