ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we argue that the goal of economics education in the university is to enable prospective teachers of economics to shape their pupils into informed and considered participants in active civil society, instilling in them high levels of ability in economic decision-making, action, and judgment. The best way to put into place the conditions under which a sustainable discourse on a society’s economic circumstances can develop is a form of economic education in universities and schools which is oriented not just towards competences, but also towards a reflective and reflexive understanding of economic processes. Hence there is a need for a pluralistic approach to economics for prospective teachers.
