Economics in K-12 Education Roundtable

We would like to invite you to attend our free webinar entitled Economics in K-12 Education Roundtable on Thursday, May 25, at 11:00 am EST. Our panel participants will be:

Murat Gökalp – Teacher of Mathematics and Economics in DP & MYP and TOK, Shanghai Community International School, Shanghai, China
David Wheat – Emeritus Professor of Economics and SD, University of Bergen, Norway
Erda Gerçek – Senior Lecturer in Economics and Strategic Thinking at Koç University, İstanbul, Türkiye
Khalid Saeed – Professor of Economics and System Dynamics at WPI, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

We will discuss some the following questions:

• What might be the fundamental stocks in an economy?
• What might be the fundamental flows and flow cycles in an economy?
• What might be the fundamental causal loops in an economy?
• Which economic theories should be introduced, in which order?
• Can a historical approach (starting from hunter gatherers) be used in teaching economics?
• How can value, money, price, fiat be taught?
• Which approach should be used when teaching economics? What are the pros and cons of each approach?
  • from micro to macro
  • from macro to micro
  • in paralel – a spiral education
• Should modeling accounting identities be introduced? If yes, how?
• Alternatively, Should Accounting System Dynamics be introduced? If yes, how?
• How should interconnectedness of economy and ecology be taught?
  • circular economy, green economy, sustainability, new economy…
• What is or should be the goal of an economic system?
• What is or should be the function of an economic system?

We hope you will join us for this webinar.