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Sorgman, Parkison receive grant for Eastern European research
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KOKOMO, Ind.—A proposal by IU Kokomo Professor of Education Margo Sorgman, Ed.D., and Association Professor of Economics Kathy Parkison, Ph.D., has been accepted for a September research symposium sponsored by the National Council for Economic Education (NCEE). At the symposium, the NCEE will introduce and make available to economic education researchers the extensive datasets on economic education collected by NCEE, the State Department, the Department of Education and other governmental and non-governmental organizations. Parkison will travel to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, to learn to access the information database maintained there by the NCEE. Co-instructors in the IU Kokomo Center for Economic Education, Sorgman and Parkison could receive a grant of up to $5,000 to use NCEE data in studying the attitudes of Eastern Europe teachers toward economic education. Their interest in Eastern Europe began in 2001, when both took part in a curriculum-writing workshop in the Czech Republic. In fall 2002, Parkison spent a week in the Republic of Armenia, teaching economics basics to government ministers and teachers from several former Soviet republics.
”Attitudes toward economic education by area teachers is a current research project of ours,” said Parkison. “This grant opportunity will allow us to compare attitudes toward economic education in Eastern Europe to attitudes in the 11-county IU Kokomo service area.”
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