Students adopt a lot of strategies in their quest to acquire, retrieve, and apply knowledge. A number of studies have been conducted in language learning to investigate the strategies students use to pursue their programmes. Yet, little is known about these strategies in the study of social science-oriented subjects such as economics. I would like therefore to know the kind of learning strategies students use in learning.
Hi Anthony!
Could you please specify your question.
Than it would be much easier to help.
Are you interested in task-specific use of learning strategies or are you interested in long-term tendencies for strategy use?
Are you interested in cognitive or meta-cognitive strategies?
What is the mean age of your participants?
What is their level of prior knowledge and individual or situational interest in economics?
Best,
Matthias
Situated learning can be used to teach students economics because learning is rooted in students' concerns and needs; done at a specific time and place; achieved thru collaboration with experts in the field. You can have students study local or global economic situations and have them interact with noted economists in finding solutions to these problems.
Article Situated Learning Theory and Geo-collaboration for Seamless Learning
Economics syllabi up to secondary stage: While a few developed countries introduce rudimentary economic aspects to primary (1-5) children, Indian students are introduced only at the upper primary stage (classes 6-8) as part of their social studies / social science course. Within the composite social science course, economics is included in either political science (civics or social and political life) or geography. A comparison of economics content in social science textbooks used in schools affiliated to state examination boards in the 1990s reveal that economics forms about 10-20 per cent of the social science course.
Students studying in schools which follow NCERT syllabus and textbooks are exposed to a few economics topics such as livelihood, markets and economic role of government.
http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/pdf/announcement/NSEE%20Background%20Paper%201.pdf
Hi Anthony, there are some studies in the social sciences about learning strategies:
Subject of history:
Akinoğlu, Orhan; Saribayrakdar, Selin (2007): Learning Strategies Used by Secondary School Students in the Course of History Studies. In: Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice 7 (1), S. 303–312.
Böhm, Matthias; Mägdefrau, Jutta; Michler, Andreas (2015): Closing the gap between students and their teachers. Situational interest as a powerful predictor of adequate learning strategy use while working on tasks in history? EARLI. Limassol, 2015. --> Slides are downloadable at researchgate.net
Social sciences:
Wolters, Christopher A.; Pintrich, Paul R. (1998): Contextual differences in student motivation and self-regulated learning in mathematics, English, and social studies classrooms. In: Instr Sci 26, S. 27–47.
Zimmerman, Barry J.; Pons, M. M. (1986): Development of a Structured Interview for Assessing Student Use of Self-Regulated Learning Strategies. In: American Educational Research Journal 23 (4), S. 614–628. DOI: 10.3102/00028312023004614.
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