How we define "Economics Education"

Economics Education is understood as the totality of all educational endeavours in general education schools to equip children and young people with such knowledge

The aim should be to enable them to cope with and shape current and
future life situations.

Economics Education is general education

Economics Education is not an anticipated vocational training or merely a response to the demands of the economy. Rather, it is part of general education and is an indispensable component of a modern content profile at general education schools, for pupils of every type of school and school type.
We see it as our responsibility to promote knowledge about the interdependence of business, politics and society and to improve understanding of market economy structures and processes.

Even our children and young people need to know the basics of our economic and social order in order to be able to participate in its further development as responsible citizens. To achieve this goal, we need teachers who take on this task and are qualified to do so.

It is not enough to simply postulate that economics education is an integral part of a modern general education. Rather, all stakeholders are called upon to promote its sustainable establishment in schools and society.

Our approach

The Oldenburg model

Important sub-tasks must be considered simultaneously for the sustainable implementation of economic content in secondary schools and grammar schools:

• Political and organisational framework conditions (e.g. hourly allocations for Economics Education in general education schools and inclusion of Economics Education in the subject canon).
• Project organisers and sponsors who are committed to supporting the anchoring of economics education with public-private partnership models ("best practice")
• Teachers who are qualified to teach the subject
• Development and provision of media, materials and concepts for lessons