Economic education

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Economic education is understood as the totality of all educational efforts in general education schools , which aim to equip students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to understand the economic context of their living environment. As education for everyone, it has an enlightening and emancipatory character and serves to enable the individual to shape his individual and collective economic life situations competently and responsibly.

It thus represents a part of general education and covers all dimensions of economic activity in our society, such as the operational , economic or global economic level, but also the economic elements of private life situations. In Austria it is integrated into the subject geography and economics .

In November 2019, the Alliance for Economic Education Germany was founded in Berlin , an initiative of business associations, teachers' associations and academics.

Focus

Economic education addresses all aspects of economic activity in society. In schools, depending on the state and type of school, different subjects serve as anchor subjects for economic education, e.g. B. Economics, politics / economics, social studies or also work studies. The contents of the curricula in the relevant school subjects include companies as social and economic actors, private households and their position in the economic system, the functions of the state in a market economy, internationalization and globalization, and the institutions and rules of economic systems.

Economic education also contributes to vocational orientation and is primarily aimed at promoting the young people's career choice and training maturity. It is particularly about the competence and personality development of the students and about seeing the process character of professional orientation as a life-long task. Career orientation is increasingly seen as the task of all subjects or of the entire school; other approaches advocate independent career courses , e.g. B. in the context of work theory . The student company work is also part of the professional orientation within the framework of economic education.

General financial literacy as part of economic education

The financial education focused on financial literacy of individuals and applies for some years as a major area of economic education. How economic and financial education relate to one another remains to be clarified. Compared to general economic education, consumer education and professional orientation, general financial education is conceptually, empirically and methodologically still in an early development phase. Financial education can also be anchored in consumer education or in home economics. The influence of banks and insurance companies on financial education and schools is coming under increasing criticism.

Economic education in teacher training

The course in economics education is used in teacher training at universities to prepare for lessons in a school subject economics (designation and content as well as subject groups differ from state to state due to the cultural federalism).

criticism

It is criticized that under the label of economic education, experts from the world of work hide the students' advertising for insurance or financial products or otherwise manipulate the students. Although this is the case in individual cases, this is not a specific feature of economic education, as interest representatives and the like. a. seek to influence companies regardless of the subject. Rather, representatives of economic education argue that a well-founded economic education is an important prerequisite for being sensitized to interests and attempts at manipulation (advertising, bank "advisory" discussions, etc.) and to be able to deal adequately with the corresponding challenges in the world. Furthermore, some didactic experts criticize that other areas are more relevant and that business should therefore not take up a large part of the school. Furthermore, there are different views among specialist didactics regarding the subject of the subject. In some cases, the demand for a combination of economics with other subjects such as politics, geography or technology is raised, as this is the only way to achieve a holistic view. With the claim to locate many disciplines in one subject, however, there is a risk of the teaching being superficial in terms of content and a lack of specialist knowledge on the part of the teachers. That is why most economics didactics require a separate subject economics for the secondary level.

Bibliography

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Introductions, general presentations, basics

  • Arndt, Holger (2020): Economic Education , Erlangen ( digitized ).
  • Engartner, Tim (2010): Didactics of Economics and Politics Lessons , UTB Paderborn, ISBN 978-3-8252-3318-1 .
  • Fischer, Andreas (ed.) (2006): Economic Education - Quo vadis? , Bielefeld.
  • Hedtke, Reinhold (2011): Concepts of Economic Education , Schwalbach / Ts.
  • Hedtke, Reinhold / Birgit Weber (ed.) (2008): Dictionary economic education , Schwalbach.
  • Hedtke, Reinhold (ed.) (2015): What is and why socioeconomics? A book on the state of the discussion. Springer Verlag Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-531-19853-8
  • Kahsnitz, Dietmar (Ed.) (2005): Integration of political and economic education? , Wiesbaden.
  • Kaminski, Hans / Krol, Gerd-Jan (2008): Economic education - legitimized, established, sustainable , Bad Heilbrunn / Obb.
  • Weber, Birgit (2010): Economic knowledge between educational deficits and uncertainties , in: Journal for Didactics of Social Sciences, 1st year, no. 1, pp. 91–114.

Methods

  • Arndt, Holger (2013): Methodology of Business Education , Opladen
  • Kaiser, Franz-Josef / Kaminski, Hans (1999): Methodology of economics lessons: Basics of an action-oriented learning concept . 3rd edition, Bad Heilbrunn.
  • Kaminski, Hans / Krol, Gerd-Jan / Eggert, Katrin / Koch, Michael / Loerwald, Dirk / Zoerner, Andreas (2005): Praxiskontakte - Cooperation between school and business , Braunschweig.
  • Retzmann, Thomas (2011) (Ed.): Method training for economics lessons I , 2nd edition, Schwalbach / Ts.
  • Retzmann, Thomas (2011) (Ed.): Method training for economics lessons II , Schwalbach / Ts.
  • Macha, Klaas / Precipitation, Silvia / Schäfer, Anna-Theresa / Schlösser, Hans-Jürgen / shoes, Michael (2009): Materials for economic education: Economic experiments , Berlin.

Educational standards, educational policy

  • Hedtke, Reinhold / Famulla, Gerd-E. / Fischer, Andreas / Weber, Birgit / Zurstrassen, Bettina (2010): For a better economic education! , Bielefeld. Access: (PDF; 94 kB)
  • Kaminski, Hans / Brettschneider, Volker / Eggert, Katrin / Hübner, Manfred / Koch, Michael (2007): More economy in school , Wiesbaden.
  • Möller, Lucca / Hedtke, Reinhold (2011): Who Owns Economic Education? Notes on the interweaving of science, business and politics , Bielefeld. Access: (PDF; 2.7 MB)
  • Seeber, Günther / Retzmann, Thomas / Remmele, Bernd / Jongebloed, Hans-Carl (2012): Educational standards of general economic education. Competence model - tasks - recommendations for action , Schwalbach / Ts.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Institute for Economic Education Oldenburg: Definition of ÖB , accessed on March 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ Jung, Eberhard (2007): What economic education do we need? In: Studium Wirtschaft, H. 29/1/2007, pp. 49–50.
  3. ↑ Dirk Loerwald in conversation with Thekla Jahn: School subject economics - "We need a few economic skills". Deutschlandfunk, November 29, 2019, accessed on December 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Broad alliance of schools, business and society calls for: Make economic education compulsory in the classroom! In: News4teachers. November 29, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 .
  5. ^ Weber, Birgit (2007): The curricular situation of economic education? In: Studium Wirtschaft, H. 29/1/2007, pp. 57–61
  6. ↑ Kaminski / Hübinger / Zedler / Staudt (2001): Strengthening the social market economy. Core curriculum for economic education , to be found at sowi-online.de ( Memento from September 27, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF).
  7. ↑ Famulla, Gerd-E. / Butz, Bert / Deeken, Sven / Michaelis, Ute / Möhle, Volker / Schäfer, Birgit (2008): Career orientation as a process - promoting personality, developing school, securing transition. Hohengehren.
  8. ↑ Beinke, Lothar (2011): Central subject areas of a job-oriented didactics. Hohengehren.
  9. ↑ Homepage of the Institute for Economic Education Oldenburg: Student company work, to be found at ioeb.de
  10. ^ Ministry of Education, Science, Youth and Culture: Guideline for consumer education at general schools in Rhineland-Palatinate. Mainz, 2010 (online) (PDF; 382 kB)
  11. ↑ Möller, Lucca / Hedtke, Reinhold (2011): Who Owns Economic Education? Notes on the interweaving of science, business and politics , Bielefeld. Access: (PDF; 2.7 MB) ( Memento from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ "Experts from the world of work" in class , the daily newspaper , March 30, 2012
  13. ↑ Engartner T. (2013): The subject “Economics” as a subject of economics? Some selected aspects of past and present debates. In: GWP H. 3, pp. 439-446
  14. ^ "More dangerous than advertising" , the daily newspaper , March 30, 2012
  15. ↑ Haarmann MP (2013): Economic learning - an end in itself or part of social learning? In: GWP H. 2, pp. 189-200
  16. ↑ degoeb.de PDF
  17. ↑ Hedtke 2015 foreword