ISS and RSM to develop online course on pluralist economics perspectives
Two birds and one stone: pluralism in economics teaching and economic problem-oriented learning
ISS and the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) have won a subsidy to develop flexible online course modules in pluralistic economic perspectives and applications to international economic problems.
Once developed, the online course will consist of a basic module and several parallel follow-up modules with the aim of introducing students to a variety of economic perspectives. The aim is to broaden the supply of introductory economics teaching in line with the international demand by students for pluralism in economics teaching.
The course approach will be threefold:
pluralist: providing students the tools and insights to adopt triangulation in theory as well as practice; behaviourist: providing students with an understanding of how ‘real people’ operate in economic settings (as entrepreneurs, as citizens/consumers, as regulators),‘wicked’: confronting students not only with simple, but also with complex and even ‘wicked’ problems for which not necessarily ‘robust’ solutions exist.
ISS team leader Professor Irene van Staveren and her counterpart at RSM, Professor Rob van Tulder, will start developing the course this spring and plan to be able to offer the basic module in September 2016 at the start of the new academic year.
