In a highly complex social and cultural scenery, understanding of economics has turned out to be a basic need for social adaptation and the practice of citizenship. The present work is a review of the state of the art in research on the understanding of economics with special emphasis on Latin-American and national studies. It also questions the current role of education in the involvement of a suitable economic literacy in the school, presenting the program "Me and economics" as a response from an educational psychology standpoint to the cue issues for and economic education.
Keywords:
Economic literacy, development of economic thought, economic education
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Denegri, M., Gempp, R., Valle, C. del, Etchebarne, S., & González, Y. (2006). The contribution of educational psychology to the proposals of economic education: key issues. Revista De Psicología, 15(2), Pág. 77–94. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-0581.2006.18398