Business education

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Business education is a social science that deals with business education and training at all ages. It has developed a special didactic and methodology to understand economics and learn to act competently as an economic subject. As a university discipline, it is objectively oriented towards economics , in particular general business administration (BWL) and general economics (VWL), the pedagogically relevant content of which must be categorically researched and taught (as economic categories) in order to make the complex economy transparent.

In the German Society for Educational Science it is represented as "Vocational and Business Education" in the form of a separate section. While business education has historically developed out of commercial teacher training, vocational education has developed out of commercial teacher training. Company pedagogy is a branch of the dual discipline that specializes in learning processes in companies.

The subject of economic educational research is economic learning and educational processes at different learning locations (school, company, university, etc.), whereby “the original economic education and training” is often interlinked with vocational training , but does not merge with it. The university discipline business education has increasingly neglected their original research contract (economic education and education) in favor of vocational training leading to the original research mission of vocational education forms part (see. There).

Germany

Business Education (WiPäd abbreviated) can in Germany Universities are studied and scientific universities and in the former Degree with the qualifying diploma commercial teacher or master's degree in a Master Accounts (eg. The Master of Science in Business and Human Resource Education and a Master of Education ). In addition, in some (federal) states there was also a degree in business education, which corresponds to that of a business teacher.

The professional field of activity is multi-layered and strongly dependent on the chosen major and personal interests.

A traditional field of activity is teaching economics and the like. a. at professional schools , Berufsfachschulen , Fachoberschulen (FOS) / Wirtschaftsgymnasium , Berufsoberschulen (BOS) and Wirtschaftsschulen or fields of activity. The first state examination is credited through the completion of the Master of Education. In some federal states, the Master of Science is also recognized as the first state examination.

The course (especially Master of Science and Business Teacher) can also qualify for further fields of activity in vocational training in further education institutions (e.g. academies), companies and administrative institutions (e.g. ministries, EU research centers, etc.). Areas of activity are z. B. the planning and optimization of e-learning concepts, dual vocational training, advanced and advanced training, vocational training systems, vocational training networks, personnel development concepts, organizational development strategies, etc. Diploma and Master of Science thus represent a professional qualification that is largely a business degree with the Focus on human resources (and optionally other focuses such as business informatics , corporate management , etc.). Depending on the economy and the federal state, up to 50% of the graduates of a year choose to go into the economy or public administration institutions instead of (or in addition to) civil service.

Austria

In Austria , too , business education can only be studied at universities ( University of Linz , Vienna University of Economics , University of Innsbruck , Karl-Franzens-University of Graz ) and is awarded in Linz with the academic degree Magistra or Magister of Social and Economic Sciences (Mag.rer.soc . oec.). Students at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Education, Innsbruck University and Graz University complete the master's degree in business education, which replaces the conventional diploma, with the academic degree of Master of Science . In the preceding Bachelor's degree in business administration, there is already the opportunity to gain initial insights into business education through the SBWL “Business Training & Education Management” (WU Vienna) or “Teaching and Learning in Organizations” (University of Innsbruck).

With this degree and a subsequent at least two years of professional activity in the private sector, the qualification to teach economics subjects (e.g. business administration, accounting, business informatics, economics, business management training focuses) at higher vocational schools ( commercial academies , commercial schools , higher education institutions for economic professions, etc.) ) connected. Due to the close relationship in terms of content with the economics courses, the graduates are roughly equally divided between the professional fields of school on the one hand and commercial and administrative professions in the private sector on the other. A field of activity for business educators is expected, especially in the field of in-company and external training.

In Switzerland

In Switzerland, business education can also only be studied at universities and is considered a complementary study to business administration. The doyen of Swiss business education is Rolf Dubs , professor emeritus and former rector of the University of St. Gallen (HSG). This qualification includes a higher teaching degree and qualifies you to teach at grammar schools or vocational schools and is also a prerequisite for teaching at Swiss universities of applied sciences . Accordingly, numerous Swiss business educators are active in teaching and research at universities.

See also

literature

  • Karl Abraham: Business Education. Basics of economic education. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1959, 1966
  • Josef Aff, Dieter Mandl, Georg Hans Neuweg, Annette Ostendorf & Bruno Schurer: Business Education at the Universities of Austria In: bwp @ Spezial 3 , available online at ( PDF )
  • Erich Dauenhauer: Business Education. Attempt to revise the discipline , Walthari, Münchweiler / Rod. 2015.
  • Alfons Dörschel: History of education in the changing economy and society. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 1972, 1976., ISBN 3-503-01510-8 (overview of the development of economic and professional education and its science)
  • Hermann Röhrs (Hrsg.): Business education - an educational science discipline? Academic Publishing Company, Frankfurt a. M. 1967. (Collection of basic essays, descriptions of different approaches, attempts at delimitation and methods of business education from Aloys Fischer (1926) to Karlwilhelm Stratmann and Joachim Peege (1966)).
  • Franz Schürholz: Basics of a business education. To the struggle for economic management and social order. Erfurt, Stenger, 1928. 133 p. (Historical)
  • Peter FE Sloane , Martin Twardy, Detlef Buschfeld: Introduction to business education. Eusl-Verl.-Ges., Paderborn 2004 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-933436-46-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DGFE: Section 7 - vocational and business education. Retrieved September 13, 2018 (German).