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Bringing the classroom to the real world: Field trips to marginalized neighborhoods

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  • EeCheng Ong
  • Timothy Wong

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The authors incorporate experiential learning into three courses: Urban Economics, Labor Economics, and the Economics of Inequality. Students visit neighborhoods that, while geographically proximate, remain outside most students’ day-to-day experiences, such as a legal red-light district that is also home to low-wage immigrant workers and a public rental housing estate whose residents were recently relocated. These location-oriented field trips raise a confluence of themes, such as poverty and crime, that relate to and beyond the authors’ courses. Students’ written reflections provide evidence that they are able to: (i) identify economic concepts within the lived realities of communities; (ii) recognize the assumptions and validity of economic models; and (iii) contextualize and reevaluate the costs and benefits to the economic agents whom they model in the classroom.

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  • EeCheng Ong & Timothy Wong, 2023. "Bringing the classroom to the real world: Field trips to marginalized neighborhoods," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(3), pages 267-280, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jeduce:v:54:y:2023:i:3:p:267-280
    DOI: 10.1080/00220485.2023.2200409
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