Teaching of Economics at the Collegiate Level (original) (raw)

Why are we teaching economics? What is the objective of our course -BA Economics? This is a question that we usually do not ask. We don't ask this question because we are afraid of the answer. That is the reason why intake in our subject is on the decline. Career Orientation Course objective must start with Career Orientation of the course. Where does your student go from here. This is not important in developed countries where students have a career in mind or in fact, and then choose a course. In developing countries, students come to you first, and expect your education to orient them to a career. Career orientation is a vocational bias of a course, not necessarily a job skill……... The course objective is of fundamental importance. The course objective decides what we should teach and how we should teach. Let us see this from our present experience. At present we are teaching BA students to become MA students. So we teach all that is needed for an MA entrance. The MA entrance...