Are you an academic who wants to incorporate ecological economics into your teaching? Connect with peer educators!
Rethinking Economics International is building a peer community of like-minded educators who can inspire and inform each other in introducing and advancing new economic thinking in university education. If you are an academic lecturer at university-level who wants to learn how you can best incorporate these materials into your teaching and share insights in a like-minded community, sign up and we’ll be in touch with upcoming events and resources.
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Please note that these webinars are specifically for academics in universities or higher education institutes wishing to bring ecological economics into their teaching. If you are a student interesting in campaigning for ecological economics to be taught as part of your university course, please find more information here.
Doughnut Economics for University Courses Teaching materials
Doughnut Economics for University Courses are the result of a collaboration between Doughnut Economics Action Lab and Rethinking Economics International and aim to support educators interested in teaching the core concepts of Doughnut Economics.
Why this initiative?
Kate Raworth’s book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist was first published in 2017, and has since been translated into more than 20 languages. Kate wrote the book as a response to the limitations of her own university economics education, with the aim of highlighting many valuable economic perspectives that she had never been taught – such as ecological, feminist, complexity and institutional economics, along with other disciplinary inspirations, and she wanted to see what happens when they dance together on the same page.
When practitioners from many different contexts and sectors – including education, local government, community groups, progressive business, architecture and design – started exploring how to put Doughnut Economics into practice, Kate and others co-founded Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) in order to collaborate with and learn from these pioneers.
DEAL and the international student-led movement Rethinking Economics have been collaborating for several years and, in response to growing international student demand to be taught a wider range of economic thought and practice in their university degree programmes, we decided to work together to help make it happen.
Who is this for?
These materials are primarily designed for use by any university lecturer wishing to bring the concepts and perspectives set out in Doughnut Economics into their own university teaching. At the same time, these materials are, of course, also available for use by students themselves, by school teachers and all educators, and indeed by anyone who finds them useful for their own learning, teaching, sharing and inspiring