the economics,business and enterprise association
London
The Economics, Business and Enterprise Association (EBEA) is the professional
subject association for everyone interested in the teaching and study of
Economics, Business and Enterprise. As a registered charity the association
seeks to: provide members with professional support promote the teaching of
Economics, Business Studies and Enterprise encourage curriculum development in
these subjects The EBEA has been supporting teachers since 1937 when it was
formed by Economics teachers as ‘The Economics Association’. With the
development of business education in the latter part of the twentieth century
and a growing interest in encouraging enterprise, the association became the
Economics, Business and Enterprise Association (EBEA). The EBEA has played a
significant part in the development of economics and business education in the
UK in terms of both curricula and pedagogy. The association publishes both a
termly journal, ‘Teaching Business and Economics’ and a monthly e-newsletter.
Journal articles provide both practical guidance and evidence-based ideas for
professional development. As an archive going back many years, indexed by
subject, they represent an important ‘body of knowledge’ fundamental to business
and economics teachers’ scholarly activity (SoTL). In addition, over the years,
the EBEA has published or contributed to all the key texts setting out the
latest thinking on subject specific pedagogy and curriculum planning. The
association supports the development of new teachers through its Initial Teacher
Education Group, members of which come from all the main ITE PGCE providers.
Each January the association runs an online new teacher conference full of tips
and guidance for trainees. Trainee teachers receive a heavily discounted
subscription, giving them access to guidance and resources specifically aimed at
their professional development. Through our advocacy work on behalf of members,
the association also plays a vital role in working with key stakeholders such as
DfE, Ofsted, Ofqual and others to ensure the school curriculum keeps up to date
with the needs of young people. Over the years, that has included both
consideration of the business and economics curricula at a subject level as well
as whole school economic and financial literacy and the development of
employability skills. The important work of The EBEA is heavily reliant on
voluntary input from members ready to share their knowledge and expertise for
the good of young people. Without such unselfish work, we believe, the learning
and development of young learners in our subject field would be all the poorer
and the nature of a good business and economic education determined by distant
policy makers and bureaucrats. If you would like to contribute some of your time
to the work of The EBEA we would very much welcome that. In the first instance
contact the journal editor Gareth Taylor at editor@ebea.org.uk.
