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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Main Author: Michael P. Cameron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-09-01
Series:Education Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/8/3/136
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spelling doaj-f019f88f65cf484786ada4910d8a104d2020-11-25T00:41:53ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022018-09-018313610.3390/educsci8030136educsci8030136What Kind of Economic Citizen? A CommentMichael P. Cameron0School of Accounting, Finance and Economics; University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New ZealandCrowley 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.http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/8/3/136economics educationcitizenship educationeconomic citizenship
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description 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.
topic economics education
citizenship education
economic citizenship
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