ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides epistemological and methodological foundations and a number of building blocks, didactical approaches, country studies, and alternative textbook conceptions. It addresses the major challenges of pluralism in economics teaching, the meta-theoretical foundations, the international perspective, the alternatives to the mainstream textbooks system, and conceptions for a didactics of pluralist teaching. It seems critical that the pluralist approaches are consolidated and established as a well-advanced, feasible, practicable, and practised alternative. The book examines the necessity, the ways, forms, and expected effects of pluralism, to enable the discipline to teach a serious social science, which may have a chance to substantially and continuously increase societal knowledge. It explores a critique of the normalising and normative role of the rigid textbook system and corresponding dogmatic and scholastic teaching and learning culture in economics.
