The global financial crisis (GFC) led to increasing distrust in economic research and the economics profession, in the process of which the current state of economics and economic education in particular were heavily criticized. Against this background we conducted a study with undergraduate...

By conducting a discourse analysis (SKAD) in the field of academic economics textbooks, this paper aims at reconstructing frames and identity options offered to undergraduate students relating to the questions "Why study economics?"and "Who do I become by studying economics?". The analysis...

Trotz vieler Initiativen zur Stärkung finanzieller Bildung an Schulen findet sich in den deutschen Lehrplänen hierzu kein eigenes Fach. Im Folgenden skizziere ich zunächst die Erwartungen an eine finanzielle Bildung und die faktische Situation an den Schulen, um dann ausführlicher die...

Die finanzielle Bildung an Schulen ist umstritten. Zum einen weil sie zum Spielfeld für lobbyistische Interessen gerät, zum anderen weil sich auch prinzipiell die Frage stellen lässt, welche (Einzel) Themen einen herausgehobenen und eigenständigen Ort im Stundenplan haben müssen. Das Thema...

Viele Entscheidungen des täglichen Lebens erfordern ökonomische Kenntnisse. Es gibt somit gute Gründe, das Wissen über Wirtschafts- und Finanzthemen zu stärken. In Deutschland gibt es bislang für ökonomische Bildung keine federführende Institution. Vielmehr engagieren sich neben dem...

Die Beiträge diskutieren die Belastbarkeit der Prinzipien Disziplinarität und Transdisziplinarität am Exempel der sozio

Economic views held by the general public tend to differ significantly from those of economic experts. To what extent would these differences fade away if people were exposed to economic instruction? In this paper we identify first-year college students' initial preconceptions about economic...

The present crisis has revealed that around the globe we are often only able to react to crises when it is (almost) too late. This paper addresses and explains the mono-structure of thought that has led to this predicament and delineates a new model of cognition capable of creating a new...

The global financial crisis (GFC) led to increasing distrust in economic research and the economics profession, in the process of which the current state of economics and economic education in particular were heavily criticized. Against this background we conducted a study with undergraduate...

By conducting a discourse analysis (SKAD) in the field of academic economics textbooks, this paper aims at reconstructing frames and identity options offered to undergraduate students relating to the questions "Why study economics?"and "Who do I become by studying economics?". The analysis...