Robert Hemp

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Title: Rethinking Economics: Fusing an Academic Understanding with a Humanistic Approach

Master's Project - 2020 Presentation:   Link to the virtual presentation room Links to an external site.

  • Time:  Session 2,  ~3:10 pm (Central Standard Time)
  •  Group Name:  Content Focused
  •  Audio only access via: 1-571-392-7650,  PIN: 993 947 1293

Abstract: 

This unit explores one way to teach the Great Recession by bringing together strategies that both equip students with a technical, academic understanding of its causes, as well as strategies that humanize the curriculum in order to build critical consciousness about larger structures of power in our democracy.

 

Below is my final paper and some of the materials I put together.  Feel free to check them out.

Final Paper - Robert Hemp

Lecture on Bubble formation and crash

Jigsaw handout

Neil Barofsky on the “Broken Promises” of the Bank Bailouts

Final Assessment

Final Capstone Presentation

 

Contact: Robert Hemp, rhemp@wisc.edu

MS, Curriculum and Instruction, Secondary Social Studies