ABSTRACT
This chapter maps out the design features of program in economics. Designing the program presented us with the challenge of how to integrate students' self and scholarly development. It also looks to constructivist developmental psychology theorists and the transformational learning literature to consider the issues around transformation and the environmental conditions that are necessary to support this transformation. The chapter reviews the principal contributions from this wide literature and the pedagogy that emerged from this research. It also introduces the concept of 'developmental space' as the systemic integrative tool, used across the program, for integrating learning about the self with the student's academic studies. The systemic integrative nature of developmental space across the program provides the environment for challenging existing assumptions and habits of thought and facilitating both self and scholarly development. It is the depth of the integration between developmental principles and the scholarly program which has given the new program its title-BA Economics.
