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Alexa Quinn; Stephen Day; Lauren Shifflett – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2025
In this article, we describe ways to use the television series "Bluey" to examine economic concepts in children's daily lives. We identify and unpack parts of Bluey episodes that might serve as the basis for lessons or discussions with young children. We explain how economic decision-making can have either "market" or…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Childrens Television, Young Children, Economics Education
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Turner, David; Pratt, John – Higher Education Review, 1990
The article examines changes in British funding policies under the Education Reform Act of 1988 to stress competitive bidding by higher education institutions. The methodology and theory of the new approach are explained, as is the concept of equilibria in decision theory underlying the approach. Noted also are responses of institutions. (DB)
Descriptors: Competition, Decision Making, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
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McCorkle, Sarapage; Watts, Michael – Journal of Economic Education, 1996
Reports on the adaptation and replication of Jane Leuthold's experiment concerning consumer choice, investments, and free riding indexes. A similar experiment, conducted in a Ukrainian classroom, produced similar results with a few notable exceptions. The exceptions reflected the Ukrainians' lack of familiarity with western economic thought. (MJP)
Descriptors: Consumer Economics, Decision Making, Economic Factors, Economic Impact
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Yair, Gad – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1996
Analyzes school choice in terms of inter-school student transfer and explains choice as the result of two factors: organization of student mobility among schools in terms of vacant positions and student body composition; and the influence and position of the school within the educational market. (MJP)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Sociology, Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kleiman, Ephraim; Rubenstein, Yona – Journal of Economic Education, 1996
Reports on the replication of Jane Leuthold's experiment concerning consumer choice, investments, and free riding indexes. This experiment, conducted in an Israeli undergraduate economics class, broadened the subjects' characteristics questionnaire to include issues of social consciousness and altruism. Includes four tables of statistical data.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Consumer Economics, Decision Making, Economic Factors