Economics as a Social Science in French lycées: A Programme Shaped by the Evolution of a School Discipline.

Autor/in	Chatel, Elisabeth
Titel	Economics as a Social Science in French lycées: A Programme Shaped by the Evolution of a School Discipline.
Quelle	In: Journal of social science education, 9 (2010) 2, S. 52-63Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1439-6246; 1618-5293; 1628-5293
DOI	10.4119/UNIBI/jsse-v9-i2-1123
Schlagwörter	Gymnasium; Curriculumentwicklung; Fachdidaktik; Sozialwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Wirtschaftserziehung; Sozialwissenschaften; Frankreich
Abstract	The aim of this article is to characterise the teaching of economics that is provided in the general streams of French upper secondary schools as part of a subject called Economic and Social Sciences (ESS). It is here that economics teaching is most heavily concentrated; furthermore, it is the only one of the two economics programmes in French lycées for which curriculum studies exist. The article will show that, despite the considerable changes it has undergone, this programme has retained the critical and socially aware approach that has been present since it was first established. It was by no means evident that such an approach, inspired originally by the work of historians of the Annales school, would be adopted, even less retained, since it goes against the grain of developments in economics at university level, both in French universities and internationally, during the two decades between 1980 and the year 2000 (LeVan Lemesle 1983; Le Merrer 1990). During this period, the economics taught in universities became less descriptive and more formalised and moved away from the other social sciences. Economists have become increasingly adept at manipulating models and have ceased to view economic and social problems from an historical perspective (Hogdson et al. 2009). The teaching of economic and social sciences in French schools has not followed this course and has been challenged on numerous occasions, most notably by academic economists and employers' representatives. The fact that its original critical approach has been maintained is due in no small measure to action taken by teachers (Original übernommen Verlag).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main (extern)
Update	2011/3