比喻在经济学教学中的应用

The Application of Metaphor in the Teaching of Economics

经济学教学适当应用比喻,把一些抽象的经济学概念、原理与学生熟悉的事物联系起来,通过丰富有趣的联想,使经济学的原理和概念更容易理解,更容易记忆。在弹性的教学中巧用人物比喻,在讲授消费者均衡时巧用猪和狐狸的比喻,在讲授平均成本和边际成本的关系中引入藤和猴子的比喻,在讲授利润最大化条件时引入猴子下山的比喻,讲授厂商生产要素合理投入区间时引入篮球队的比喻,收到了很好的效果。

The proper application of metaphor in the teaching of economics can make students associate the principle and concept of economics with things that the students kown very well and make the understanding and memory to the principle and concept of economics more easily . It achieved good results that introducing the metaphor about typical figure to the teaching of Elasticity , applying the metaphor about pig and fox in the teaching of the Consumer＇s Equilibrium, introducing the metaphor about monkey and cane to the teaching of the relation between Average Cost and Marginal Cost Profit, introducing the metaphor about monkey to go down from hill to the teaching of the Maximization Consumer＇s Equilibrium and applying the metaphor about basketball team in the teaching of Firm＇s Factors of Production Proper Input Region