What Kind of Economic Citizen? A Comment
Crowley and Swan (2018) proposed a categorisation of economic citizenship, in which they extend earlier work to include a new type, the discerning economic citizen. I argue that the discerning economic citizen is not a distinct type from the other three (the personally responsible economic citizen,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2018-09-01
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| Series: | Education Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/8/3/136 |
| Summary: | Crowley and Swan (2018) proposed a categorisation of economic citizenship, in which they extend earlier work to include a new type, the discerning economic citizen. I argue that the discerning economic citizen is not a distinct type from the other three (the personally responsible economic citizen, the participatory economic citizen, and the justice oriented economic citizen). The underlying idea of whether an economic citizen is discerning or not instead represents a different dimension across which the goals of economics education could be conceptualised. |
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| ISSN: | 2227-7102 |