From el Campesino to Cooperation Jackson: Teaching Economics Through Cooperatives in Marginalized Communities

• In Event: Curriculum, Community, and Inter/disciplinarity: Dismantling Dominant Curricular Approaches

Abstract

This paper reimagines economics education through culturally relevant pedagogy and ethnic studies, emphasizing economic practices rooted in marginalized communities as alternatives to the dominant economic system. The paper presents a curricular framework that asks, how can cooperative economics help communities that have been marginalized by the dominant economic system?

Author

• Tadashi Dozono, California State University - Channel Islands