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Engaging Economics: ‘The Innocents Abroad’ in Rome and Italy

In: Off-Campus Study, Study Abroad, and Study Away in Economics

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  • David E. R. Gay

    (University of Arkansas)

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Engaging students at the Rome Center (UARC) for five summers led the author to revamp the approach to remembering, comprehending, analyzing, synthesizing, and judging decisions. Individuals became adept in the seen and unseen parts of economics and, by extension, to draw inferences from architecture, painting and sculpture, by being careful, trained observers. One gradually questioned why the gondoliers no longer sang in the canals of Venice. Why pickpockets rode on Rome’s bus #64. And they looked behind the obvious answers. This paper explores adapting one semester microeconomic and macroeconomic basic economics class using a modified, revised Bloom’s taxonomy. Students developed an extensive class portfolio full of observations sparked by curiosity, exploration, and discovery. Beginning as innocents abroad, they did well and grew in experience. As a teacher you have each student at a special time when a student is curious, wants to explore, and discovers a new world.

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  • David E. R. Gay, 2021. "Engaging Economics: ‘The Innocents Abroad’ in Rome and Italy," Contributions to Economics, in: Joshua Hall & Kim Holder (ed.), Off-Campus Study, Study Abroad, and Study Away in Economics, chapter 0, pages 191-203, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:conchp:978-3-030-73831-0_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73831-0_16
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