Many parents are unaware of how current economics education shapes young people’s worldviews. The models students learn, and are tested on, assume selfish behaviour, profit maximisation, and endless economic growth as the norm. These ideas conflict with the values most parents teach at home: cooperation, fairness, and care for the living world.
Speaker description:
Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann has been a social studies teacher for more than 25 years, specialising in economics in the International Baccalaureate programme. She is the author of several widely used textbooks and leads the Regenerative Economics for Secondary Schools project, collaborating with the Doughnut Economics Action Lab and many other organisations. Her work helps teachers and students worldwide bring regenerative ideas into classrooms and is contributing to curriculum reform in the Netherlands, England, Scotland, Ireland, and the International Baccalaureate. Her work has direct relevance for the ongoing curriculum reviews in both England and Scotland.