Gerd-Jan Krol

Gerd-Jan Krol (born June 17, 1943 in Bad Bentheim ) is a German economist .

Life

Krol graduated from high school in Nordhorn. In 1963 he began studying economics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . After graduating with a degree in economics , he embarked on a career as a research assistant at the Chair of Economic Theory with Jochen Schumann and at the Institute for Cooperative Studies with Erich Böttcher. In 1970 he also worked as a research assistant at the Bernhard Gahlen chair at the University of Augsburg . 1971 doctorate he attended the University of Münster Dr. rer. pole. (doctor rerum politicarum: Doctor of Political Science and Economics) and received the university's faculty award for his work The Economic Reform in the GDR and its Causes - Experiences with the Administrative Control Concept . He stayed with the University of Augsburg until 1974, now as a research assistant . In 1974 he was appointed to the chair for economics and economics didactics at the University of Education in Westphalia-Lippe (Münster department). The focus of teaching and research here was on economic policy . In 1980, he followed a call to the Institute for Economics and its Didactics in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Münster and finally came to the Institute for Economic Education in the Department of Economics . There he held the Chair of Economics until his retirement in 2008. Between 2000 and 2002 he also acted as managing director of the institute.

From 1979 to 1985 Krol was a member of the advisory board of the Ecumenical Student Union and from 1996 to 2001 he was a member of the advisory board of the North Rhine-Westphalian Nature and Environmental Protection Academy. From 1996–2006 he was a liaison professor at the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst . Krol is also a member of the Association for Social Policy and the German Society for Economic Education.

Research and Teaching

Projects (selection)

During his work at the Institute for Economic Education, Gerd-Jan Krol led various projects of the EU , the German Federal Environment Foundation and the Federal Environment Agency for environmental education.

In North Rhine-Westphalia, the model project “Praxiskontakte Wirtschaft - Wirtschaft im Schule (PRAWIS)” (2000–2004) made a contribution to enabling economics to be chosen as a focus within the framework of the social sciences subject in the upper secondary school.

From 2004 to 2007 Gerd-Jan Krol and Andreas Zoerner headed the “Economic Education / Economy” working group in the joint project of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to create the “Orientation Framework for the Learning Area Global Development in the Framework an education for sustainable development ”.

The Impact of the Bologna Process on Teaching

As part of the Bologna Process , the degree of polyvalence ( openness to effects) was also required with regard to teacher training courses : In the future, two-subject Bachelor students should not only be prepared for a teaching degree- specific Master (Master of Education), but equally for the extracurricular practice or a specialist Master of Science. In order to guarantee this openness of the study objective, the Institute for Economic Education under the leadership of Gerd-Jan Krol and in cooperation with the Institute for Political Science and the Institute for Sociology has developed a special focus model.

The Münster focus model

The Münster focus model was designed by the Institute for Economic Education under the leadership of Gerd-Jan Krol in cooperation with the Institute for Political Science and the Institute for Sociology especially for students who are aiming for a teaching position in integrated subjects such as social sciences . In the case of integrated subjects, there is an increased difficulty in ensuring the polyvalence of the course. Due to the division of the subject into the sub-disciplines (social sciences: politics, economics, sociology) there is too little study contingent on the individual disciplines. In the sub-disciplines, access to corresponding extracurricular fields of work or to an independent specialist master's can no longer be guaranteed.

The Münster focus model enables students of the social sciences teacher training course to focus on one of the three sub-disciplines. In the course of the bachelor's degree, the students can decide whether they want to upgrade the elective area to a purely technical degree by deepening the main subject; this would qualify them both for a specialist master's degree and for the corresponding extracurricular field of work. Or whether they qualify for a Bachelor of Social Sciences by completing the other sub-disciplines, which enables access to a Master of Education in Social Sciences.

Research priorities

• Economic education : theoretical foundation, technical foundation, methodological development, implementation problems
• General business didactics
• Consumer policy, consumer education
• Environmental economics , environmental policy , environmental education
• Use of new information and communication technologies in economic education

Publications (selection)

• H. Kaminski, G.-J. Krol (Hrsg.): Economic education: legitimized, established, sustainable. Stand and prospects . Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbronn 2007.
• G.-J. Krol: European emissions trading . In: M. Gätze, Stefan Kooths (Ed.): Decision-oriented economics. Festschrift for Gustav Dieckheuer . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2005, pp. 291-314.
• G.-J. Krol: Environmental Problems, Morals and Incentives in Modern Societies . In: M. Tolba (Ed.): Our Fragile World. Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development , Vol. I. EOLSS Publishers, Oxford 2001, pp. 973-982.
• G.-J. Krol: Economic behavior theory . In: H. May (Ed.): Handbook of economic education . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, pp. 17-31.
• G.-J. Krol: Environmental problems from an economic point of view. On the relevance of environmental economics for environmental education . In: H. May (Ed.): Handbook of economic education . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, pp. 525-546.
• G.-J. Krol: Guiding principles of consumer policy . In: H. May (Ed.): Handbook of economic education . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, pp. 83-98.
• G.-J. Krol: Distribution of income in the Federal Republic . In: H. May (Ed.): Handbook of economic education . Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2000, pp. 369-396.
• G.-J. Krol (Hrsg.): Discussion series economic education . Münster 1998–2002 (from 2002 together with T. Apolte and A. Dilger: IÖB discussion papers ).
• G.-J. Krol, H. Kaminski et al. a .: Practice contacts. Cooperation between school and business . Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 2005.
• G.-J. Krol, A. Schmidt: Economics. A problem-oriented introduction . 21st edition. UTB, Stuttgart 2002.
• D. Loerwald, M. Wiesweg, A. Zoerner (Eds.): Economics and society. Festschrift for Gerd-Jan Krol . Publishing house for social sciences, Wiesbaden 2008.

Web links

• wiwi.uni-muenster.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ D. Loerwald, M. Wiesweg, A. Zoerner (eds.): Economics and society. Festschrift for Gerd-Jan Krol . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, p. 475.
2. ↑ prawis.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ prawis.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ prawis.de
5. ↑ H.-J. Albers: Foreword . In: D. Loerwald, M. Wiesweg, A. Zoerner (eds.): Economics and society. Festschrift for Gerd-Jan Krol . Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2008, pp. 5-7.
6. ↑ bne-portal.de ( Memento of the original dated November 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)  
7. ↑ G.-J. Krol, D. Loerwald: Economic education in tiered teacher training using the example of a focus model . In: H. Kaminski, G.-J. Krol (Hrsg.): Economic education: legitimized, established, sustainable. Stand and prospects . Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbronn 2007, pp. 239–245.
8. ↑ wiwi.uni-muenster.de