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Peer reviewedSchug, Mark C.; McCorkle, Sarapage; Morton, John S. – Social Studies, 1998
Describes two books of curriculum materials published by the National Council on Economic Education regarding the Central and East European transition economies: (1) "Economies in Transition: Command to Market" (1997); and (2) "From Plan to Market: Teaching Ideas for Social Studies, Economics, and Business Classes" (1997). (DSK)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economics, Economics Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedElder, Patricia K.; Sumilo, Erika – Social Studies, 1998
Explains the leadership role taken by the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) in running programs in the transition economies to prepare classroom teachers and teacher educators for teaching the basics of how market economies work. Describes training, curriculum development, and exchange programs conducted by NCEE. (DSK)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economics, Economics Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Schug, Mark C.; Lopus, Jane S.; Morton, John S. – 1997
This packet of lessons focuses on the transition from a legacy of central planning to a market orientation in the economic systems of Central and Eastern Europe, the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union, and China. These lessons seek to provide high school teachers with a well-informed approach to teaching about this transition. The…
Descriptors: Business Education, Consumer Education, Developing Nations, Economic Change
Download full textAnderson, Curt; Dick, Robert; Prager, Jeffrey; Stivers, Nolan; Ware, Judith; Burke, Francis; Keay, Thomas; Rothweiler, Deborah; Tepe, Henry; Suiter, Mary, Ed.; McCorkle, Sarapage, Ed. – 1997
The materials in this publication were developed by nine high school teachers from St. Louis, Missouri, and a U.S. economic educator after they attended a program in Kharkiv, Ukraine, to learn about the difficulties of economic transition in that country. This book is designed to provide lessons about basic economic reform issues facing the…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Communism, Economic Change, Economic Climate
