I've included two versions of some suggestions - one as an 
attachment and one in the text of the e-mail. I hope these are of some
use.

Best wishes


Peter

Research in Economics and Business Education

Natural places to look for research papers on economics and business 
education are: Journal of Economic Education (U.S. mainly focused on 
undergraduate), Children's Social and Economic Education (no longer 
published), Economic Awareness (No longer published) and Economia 
(From the Association for European Economics Education - no longer 
published) and of course Teaching Business and Economics and its 
predecessors. A small amount of research on our subject area is 
published in general education journals when the topics are of wider 
interest. A number are listed below:


Learning Outcomes

Dahlgren, L-O (1984) Outcomes of Learning, in F. Marton, D. Hounsell 
and N. Entwistle (Eds.) The Experience of Learning (Edinburgh: 
Scottish Academic Press). - summary of phemonenographic approach to 
defining outcomes of learning in economics.
McEwen, A., McGuinness, C. and Knipe, D. (2001) Teaching and cognitive
outcomes in A-levels and advanced GNVQs: case studies from science and
business studies classrooms, Research Papers in Education, 16(2):199 -
222 - recent study highly relevant to the development of thinking 
skills in business studies
Wood, K. (2000) The experience of learning to teach: changing student 
teachers' ways of understanding teaching. Journal of Curriculum 
Studies. 32(1): 75-93. - application of phenomenography to the 
identification of conceptions of 'teaching' amongst trainee teachers 
of economics and business studies.
Stock, P.A. and Rader, W.D. (1997) Level of Economic Understanding for
Senior High School Students in Ohio, Journal of Educational Research, 
91,1: 60-63.
Salemi, M. and Siegfried, J. (1999) The state of economic education, 
American Economic Review, 89(2): 355-361.
Walstad, W. and Allgood, S. (1999) What do College Seniors know about 
Economics? American Economic Review, 89(2): 350-354. - each of the 
last three focusing on outcomes of economics education in the U.S.
Meyer, J.H.F. and Shanahan. M.P. (2001a). A triangulated approach to 
the modeling of learning outcomes in first year economics. Higher 
Education Research & Development, 20; 2: 127-145.
Meyer, J.H.F. and Shanahan. M.P. (2001b). On variation in conceptions 
of 'price' in economics. Higher Education, forthcoming. Last two are 
technical papers which start from a phenomenographic base and then 
attempt a statistical analysis of patterns in students' thinking.

Citizenship Education 

Davies, I. (1998) Economic and Monetary Union: Issues Relating to 
Education for Citizenship, Evaluation and Research in Education, 12,3:
153-166.
Davies, I. (2001) Enterprising citizens? Perceptions of citizenship 
education and enterprise education in England and Hungary. Educational
Review. 53(3): 261-269. - Ian Davies has written a great deal on 
Citizenship and these two papers address aspects of the interaction 
between Citizenship education and business and economics education.
Davies, P. (2001) Economic Understanding and Citizenship in England, 
in Schlösser, H.G. (ed.) Stand und Entwicklung der ökonomischen 
Bildung Bergisch Gladbach: Verlag Thomas Holbein).
Davies, P. (2002) Principals or Agents? Developing Citizenship through
Business, Economics and Financial Education, Online Journal for Social
Sciences and their Didactics 1/2002 http://www.sowi-online.de
- last two present theoretical reviews of the place of business and 
economics education within secondary education. The SOWI paper 
includes a commentary on the Howard Davies' review.
Davies, P. (2002) Howie, H., Mangan, J. and Telhaj, S. (2002) Economic
aspects of citizenship education: an investigation of students' 
understanding, The Curriculum Journal, 13(2): 227-249. - report of an 
empirical investigation of students' thinking about the economic 
aspects of citizenship.

Curriculum Development

Groot, Wim; Hartog, Joop; Oosterbeek, Hessel. (1994) Costs and 
revenues of investment in enterprise-related schooling. Oxford 
Economic Papers. 46(4): 658-675.
Williams, R. and Yeomans, D. (1994) 'The new vocationalism enacted?' 
The transformation of the business studies curriculum', The Vocational
Aspect of Education, 46(3): 221-40. - reports a small scale study of 
the BIS course and claims it represents a new direction for business 
studies and vocational education.
Davies, P. (1999) The changing definition of business studies in the 
school curriculum, The Curriculum Journal 10(1): 11-28. Reports an 
empirical study of business studies departments and how the curriculum
changed 1986-1998 - something of a counter to Williams and Yeomans.
Davies, P., Adnett, N. and Turnbull, A. (2002)Market forces and 
diversity: some evidence from the 14-19 curriculum, Journal of 
Curriculum Studies (forthcoming)- Empirical study of curriculum change
in a small cohort of schools - looks at the experience of business and
economics to illustrate aspects of school behaviour in local markets.
Hayward, G. (1996) Project Business (UK): lessons from the pilot 
programme evaluation. Education & Training. 38(4): 25-31.On Fri, 6 Sep
2002 09:12:07 -0700 Colin Harber Stuart <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

> Dear all
> 
> I've been asked to put together a reading list for
> beginning teachers of Business and Economics. The list
> will include research papers and books covering
> teaching and learning issues - pedagogy, assessment
> etc. Apart from OFSTED publications I'm not really
> aware of much that has been published since the Core
> Economics Teachers Guide in 1995.
> 
> Does anyone have any more recent suggestions? If so
> could they let me know and I'll add the references to
> the list. Better still if anyone has a reasonably up
> to date reading list they could let me have....
> 
> If anyone would like a copy of the list when it is
> done then let me know.
> 
> Colin Harber Stuart
> 
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Dr. Peter Davies
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