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A Participatory Teaching Strategy Developing A Timeline Of The Global Financial Crisis, Margaret J. Giles
A Participatory Teaching Strategy Developing A Timeline Of The Global Financial Crisis, Margaret J. Giles
Research outputs 2011
The rapid pace of change of ideas and events in economics places pressure on teachers of university economics to stay abreast of developments in their field and to reflect these developments appropriately in their classes. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was an excellent example of this phenomenon with a great deal of material written on this subject over a relatively short space of time. Under certain circumstances, one way of coping with such developments may be for teachers and students to acquire emerging knowledge and information jointly rather than sequentially. This paper describes a teaching strategy where students constructed a …