From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Mon Apr 16 2007 - 10:21:09 EDT
----- Original Message ----- Survey on Students' Perceptions of Economics An international survey is being undertaken into students' perceptions of economics. It is being conducted by Andrew Mearman (UWE, Bristol) and Tim Wakeley (Griffith University, Australia). The major goal of the survey is to ascertain students' perception of the economics discipline and to identify factors which influence those perceptions. We believe the results may be highly useful in informing strategies in curriculum design aimed at improving recruitment, retention and overall satisfaction with economics. We seek the co-operation of economists in alerting students to this survey and encouraging students to take part. The survey will cover mainly UK, US and Australian students, however it is open to students in other countries. We are interested in the views of any students about to complete or who have recently completed any economics or economics-based (including business and finance) modules. Please encourage any eligible students to complete the survey. All students taking part will have the option to enter a prize draw to win an iPod. The survey is completed online. Students wishing to complete the survey should go to http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/ltsn/perceptions. We should also like to make a special request to UK heterodox economists who have recently/are currently running modules which have a significant heterodox content, where 'heterodox' might include a pluralist approach and/or specific heterodox approaches. We should like to conduct small focus groups on the effectiveness of heterodox economic concepts in understanding real world issues. Each focus group would comprise around 5 students, all of whom would be paid. The focus groups would take place in the period April-June. If you are interested in recruiting focus groups from your student groups, please contact Andrew Mearman (Andrew.Mearman@uwe.ac.uk). Thanks Andrew
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