Renewing the Dutch economics syllabus for higher secondary education:Educational reforms from past to current debates

Dutch secondary school economics education was never at rest. It currently finds itself once more in an interesting phase of transition. New developments of behavioural economics have been incorporated into the exam subject matter while the deletion of Keynesian model making from the corpus triggers public debate. In this paper its one and a half century old history is described with a focus on the development of views on educational aims and the tools used to achieve these aims. The nineteenth and twentieth century history of economics teaching in the Netherlands runs from the aim to prepare... Mehr ...