From monoculture to pluricultures. Recent trends in economic education

The role of academic economics education in establishing and nurturing a monoculture of thought and action, emanating from this powerful discipline has been pivotal. However, as of today, there exists a vast array of pedagogical alternatives. These are contributing to an emerging pluri-culture of future economics. The chapter presents a framework to compare these pluralizing ambitions in (and of) economics education. Furthermore, we discuss in detail how recent trends in the debate are beginning to reflect economics education in the broader context of its socio-ecological pervasiveness. So too, we grapple with the process of reshaping it from an overtly imperialist tradition, towards a decolonized and diversified domain, in terms of both content and didactics. Throughout the chapter we provide examples, databases and go-to manuals that have been established to foster pluralist economic education. This chapter does not diminish the challenges that exist in economics education but also seeks to point out instances where progress has been made and offers avenues that exist for economic pluri-cultures to emerge.