35th Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy

Leeds, UK
13-15 September 2023

Call for Papers for Research Area [Y] Teaching, Pedagogy and Curriculum Development for Evolutionary and Political Economics

Coordinators

Gissell Huaccha
Leeds University Business School
G.G.Huaccha@leeds.ac.uk

Peter Hughes
Leeds University Business School
P.T.Hughes@leeds.ac.uk

Arthur Jatteau
Centre Illois d’etudes et de recherches sociologique et economiques, Université de Lille
Arthur.Jatteau@univ-lille.fr

Stefan Kesting
University of Leeds, UK
S.Kesting@leeds.ac.uk

You can find the general Call for Papers for the EAEPE conference at EAEPE 2023 CfP

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Important dates

• 15 April, 2023: Abstract Submission Deadline for Individual Papers
• 15 May, 2023: Notification of Abstract Acceptance; Registration Opens
• 10 June, 2023: Early Registration Closes
• 1 July, 2023: Late Registration Closes (for authors to be included in the scientific programme)
• 25 August, 2023: Submission of Full Papers Deadline

Motivation, background and context of Research Area [Y]

Since the publication of the Wealth of Nations, economics departments around the world have prioritised economics research over economics pedagogy. While economics research, methodologies and policy implications stemming from research findings are crucial to better understand how the economy works, critical scholars have observed how different pedagogical approaches may heavily influence the way in which we teach economics.

Pedagogy plays a decisive role in promoting critical thinking instead of reproducing faulty mainstream paradigms. With this concern in mind, in recent decades efforts have been made to close this fundamental pedagogical gap in the educational landscape. Universities across the world have introduced programmes that aim to rethink and redesign the ways in which we teach economics. A fresh start to advance our curriculum and pedagogical practice should build upon the accumulated experience that Evolutionary and Political Economists have had in their classrooms as well as acknowledge and include the deepening inequalities experienced by students from diverse backgrounds in their learning of economics.

To foster a more student-oriented scholarship in pedagogy that reflects the above concerns, this research area offers a pluralistic forum for the exchange of ideas on teaching and learning evolutionary and political economics. This research area builds upon the critique regarding the ways in which economics is currently taught and aims to move forward in terms of dissemination of research that embrace a large variety of curriculum developments and pedagogy in the field.

Possible contributions

• Reflective different pedagogical practices and curriculum development of evolutionary and political economics:

• • Active exploration and evaluation of teaching practice and innovations
  • Initiation and exploration of new evolutionary and political economics content and approaches
  • Relationship between different pedagogies and schools of economic thought
  • The role of pedagogy in promoting critical thinking
  • Decolonial pedagogies and decolonizing economics
  • Increase in precarious working conditions in academia and its impact on pedagogy
  • Pedagogical practices that promote equity and justice in teaching and learning
  • …
• Dissemination of good teaching practice and innovation in:

• • Working in partnership with students to co-produce pedagogic material, practice and curriculum
  • Constructing of teaching materials (textbooks, online and face-to-face)
  • Mentoring schemes to support the teaching practice of colleagues
  • Designing new forms of assessment
  • Develop new forms of active learning
  • Classroom activities and innovations focused on teaching, practising, and experimenting with evolutionary and political economics issues
  • …

Though ChatGPT has stirred up the academic community only quite recently and there may not be much research or thought on this topic so far. We would nonetheless like to invite contributions reflecting on the problematic of AI in learning, teaching and assessment already for the conference this year.

Abstract Submission

You are invited to submit an abstract no later than 1st April 2023 on the conference website. Following the usual format, prospective participants are invited to submit a proposed paper related either to the theme of the conference or one of the diverse EAEPE Research Areas (RA) as well as the Special Sessions. Abstracts (300-750 words) for proposed individual papers or for a RA or Special Session should include the following information: authors’ names, email addresses and, affiliations, and name and code of the relevant RA. Following notification of acceptance, you will be invited to submit the full paper. Please note that only one presentation per author is permitted; additional papers can be submitted by the same author but will need to be presented by a registered co-author, if accepted by the scientific committee.

Abstract Submission:
https://eaepe.org/?page=events&side=annual_conference&sub=abstract_submission