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- Discusses topics in economic education with a focus on experiential learning
- Diversifies methodological approaches to teaching economics with evidence from real
- classrooms with practical applications
- Serves as a handbook to help ease the start-up costs of teaching a study away or study
- abroad course for educators at all levels
Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)
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Joshua Hall is Chair and Professor at the John Chambers College of Business and Economics at West Virginia University (US). Dr. Hall's areas of interest include applied microeconomics, with an emphasis on economic freedom, state and local public finance and entrepreneurship. In addition to being the author of more than 50 articles in journals such as Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public Administration, Research, and Theory, Contemporary Economic Policy, and Southern Economic Journal, he is co-author of the widely-cited Economic Freedom of the World annual report.
Kim Holder is the Director of the University of West Georgia’s (UWG) Center for Economic Education and Financial Literacy and Senior Lecturer of Economics in the Richards College of Business. She’s an alumna of UWG and Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Holder’s academic research focuses on creatively teaching with media and social media tobreak down barriers to economics education. Kim served as a founding advisory board member of the Journal of Economics Teaching and is a board member focused on economic education for the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the Journal of Private Enterprise.
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Book Title: Off-Campus Study, Study Abroad, and Study Away in Economics
Book Subtitle: Leaving the Blackboard Behind
Editors: Joshua Hall, Kim Holder
Series Title: Contributions to Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73831-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73830-3Published: 09 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73833-4Published: 09 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73831-0Published: 08 October 2021
Series ISSN: 1431-1933
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 294
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Education, general