The Components of Economic Education Curriculum in General Education

Even though upstream documents have emphasized on economic education, bout recent status of this field is vague and Few studies are conducted investigating goals, content, teaching methods and assessment. The present paper aim to explain ten curriculum components in relation to economic education in general education. For this purpose, all studies conducted from 1995 to 2019 in other countries and from 2006 to 2019 in Iran were survey and 52 studies were selected and through six-step model for Meta synthesis their components were provided. To gather the required data, the worksheet form and Cohen’s kappa coefficient were used in order to ensure the reliability, and open and axial coding methods from software Nvivo-8 was employed for data analysis phase. According to the results, economic education goals include familiarizing with basic concepts and moral values in elementary level and promoting economic skills and competencies in the secondary level. The content should be design based on the goals and active teaching strategies are recommended. The teacher plays the role of facilitator and diverse materials and resources could be used. The class activities should be conducted in small groups. The time and location are inflexible and the qualitative assessment methods are important.