A student climbs onto the desk, the lecturer and participants look on - and this is supposed to be "educationally valuable", many people ask, irritated by such a photo. What you can't hear is the voice from off-camera saying: "I stood on the desk to remind myself that we have to constantly force ourselves to look at the world from a different point of view. Everything looks completely different from up here. If you don't believe it, come and stand up here!" So where we end up when students are encouraged to experiment with film scenes like the one shown from the "Dead Poets' Club" is answered by "Mr. Keating", the controversial teacher of the cult film, with the educational category of changing perspectives.

This is one of the many skills and knowledge that students of vocational and business education need to acquire in order to find a science-based point of view at the interface of pedagogical, economic, technical and social issues before they can teach as teachers themselves. How colorful and true-to-life theories support the design of learning processes that promote development is illustrated to students by a range of courses aimed at professionalism. In addition to public vocational and general schools, there is also a demand from private providers of training and further education, whether in-house at large companies or at adult education centers, associations and, more recently, software companies that are competing with (school) publishers. If you want to be prepared to teach trainees as well as managers, if you want to design teaching processes "live" as well as generate learning materials in a reflective manner, in short: if you want to be pedagogically sound in educational processes, you need a specific combination of professional, personal and social skills in order to be able to think and act professionally.

Professional competence requires understanding: Students of Vocational and Business Education enrol in the Schools: Education Architecture Arts. You will study your subject in the Schools involved in the degree program. With the selection of vocational specializations
and / or teaching subjects
you can combine your individual inclinations with the future-oriented requirements of the job market.

In the theory of work-oriented exemplarity, students learn - among many other things - about the educational science approach to contemporary teaching and learning in the professional field represented by the Chair of Vocational and Business Education here. Because specialist knowledge alone does not lead to the exam. Personal and social competence refers to the ability to judge and act responsibly for oneself and in a socio-economic context.

This often sounds easier than being able to react appropriately to youth-specific provocations in role plays on authentic case studies, using the metaplan technique to moderate a parents' evening in a conflict-sensitive manner or simulating school development under budget restrictions in collegial teamwork supported by multimedia. The study approach, which aims to teach teaching so that students can show in their written and/or oral final examinations, as in their academic term papers, that they have acquired the academic prerequisites for further professionalism, also and precisely because they have learned to find their point of view for professional action across some "tables and benches".