A Classroom Experiment on Social Responsibility

This work proposes a teaching-learning activity encouraging students to think and discuss on social values: respect, solidarity, and a like. The main goal is the student becomes aware of economic and social extend of her own decisions. To this purpose, we design an activity combining experimental economics and structured debate discipline. This activity is developed in three phases. First, students participate in a laboratory economic experiment based on ultimatum game. Second, a structured debate on a controversial social topic is organized, affirmative team against negative team. And third, a discussion class to collect students’ opinions and final evaluation.