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On 16 June 2015 I posted a Blog Calling all academic economists: Calling all academic economists: What are you teaching your students? Soon after this I had a very nice email from a young academic economist, at the beginning of his academic journey, full of enthusiasm, commitment and dreams.
He told me that he was very inspired and moved by my Blog. He, too, like me, he noted, sees teaching as a vocation and he had opted to become a university lecturer, believing that it is his mission in life to engage with students with life’s bigger questions, not just teaching them a bit of economics here and there with huge amount of mathematics, statistics and IT.
He then told me that he wishes to prepare a different module for his first year students, something that will make them stop and think about more important questions and aspects of life.
He then asked me if I can shed some light on this, sharing a bit more of what I think is important to teach and perhaps suggest a course that I, myself, would have liked to teach my own first year students, if I was still teaching.
I was so excited and happy to hear from him. What an honourable young man.
I began my research, composing my thoughts and getting things together. I then came across a Blog “Ubuntu Education: Nelson Mandela’s Lasting Legacy” which I had written on 31 December 2013. There I had suggested a possible inspiring economics module.
I then emailed back the young academic. He was very appreciative and excited about the possibility of offering such a module, hoping that the majority of “orthodox” forces at his school would not put a spanner in his works, a fact that I remember very clearly myself, looking back all those years ago.
I hope he will succeed. I wish him and other “heterodox” academic economists well.
Below I have noted my suggested ECON 101 for all those who are thinking along the same lines.
- Why Economics, Economists and Economy Fail?
- Calling all academic economists: What are you teaching your students?
- Our Land, Our Rent, Our Jobs
- Open Letter to Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England
- Values, Ethics, and the Common Good in MBA rankings: Where are they?
- Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The countdown has begun
- Sustainable Development Goals: Where is the Common Good?