Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/308103 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 1547
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
A literacy-targeted approach to economic instruction draws on insights from cognitive science. It highlights that students process complex economic information by constructing and modifying schemas that represent economic material. Following this approach, we developed a set of instructional activities centered around causal diagrams that promote a deeper understanding of economic topics beyond the traditional lecture-based methods. Our results show that structural debriefing activities can be used effectively to introduce students to the causal diagrams that explain key economic relationships in the national income model, government-purchases multiplier and tax multiplier.
Subjects: 
economic education
literacy-targeted teaching
constructivism
schemas
causal diagrams
causal skeleton
national income model
multiplier
JEL: 
A10
A22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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