Student information
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| BA LA Sowi Gym/Gesamt, Social Sciences |
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| BA LA Sowi Gym/Gesamt, specialization in economics | |
| BA LA Sowi HRG (Hauptschule, Realschule and comprehensive school) | |
| BA LA Economics/Politics (for BKs) | |
| Supplementary subject Economics | Slides from the introductory course |
| BA LA Economics in conjunction with a teaching subject or a vocational subject area |
Slides of the introductory course |
On the following pages you will find information on the degree programs:
- Teacher training in social sciences
- Teacher training in economics/politics
- Teacher training in economics
- Teacher training extension course in economics
- Supplementary subject Economics
Contact person
If you have any questions about the practical semester in social sciences (LA Gym, HRGe) or economics/politics (LA BK), please contact AOR Dr. Marco Rehm
is available at any time during office hours or by e-mail.
- Please observe the format regulations for final theses of the Center for Teacher Education for all work at ZÖBIS
- All BA/MA and seminar papers as well as presentation papers must be submitted electronically, partly because they are checked by the Schools's anti-plagiarism software.
We therefore ask you to sign the following declaration and attach it to your seminar papers:
"I agree that the work will be checked for contained plagiarism with the help of anti-plagiarism software and will be temporarily stored on the server of the plagiarism detection service for this purpose."
- Please also note the"Guidelines for dealing with "AI-based" language models / text generators (GPT or similar)" of Schools III.
Topics for theses
You want to write your BA or MA thesis at the Chair of Economics and Didactics of Economics and do not yet have an idea which topic you would like to work on? On this page we present new topics as well as older topics that have already been worked on.
In the field of business didactics
- Teacher research (contact person: M. Rehm):
- What attitudes do Sowi teachers have to their subject/to further training from various providers/to educational reforms in the field of economics education?
- Typification of Sowi/economics teachers
- Student research (contact person M. Rehm):
- What prior economic knowledge/attitudes do pupils at lower and upper secondary level have depending on certain personal characteristics, previous experience, etc.?
- How do students use teaching materials (textbooks, economic experiments, simulation games, etc.) depending on personal characteristics (performance, language skills, etc.)?
- Teaching research (contact: M. Rehm):
- What connections are there between visual and deep structures (especially cognitive activation and feedback) in economics lessons on the one hand and lesson experience and lesson outputs (especially learning) on the other?
- What connections are there with deep structures in economics lessons and student characteristics?
- Material/textbook research (contact persons: M. Rehm, R. Kron):
- How is action orientation implemented in textbooks?
- How is problem orientation implemented in textbooks?
- How complex are problems in textbooks (and/or other teaching materials)?
- How do types of tasks affect students' attitudes and abilities?
- Experimental research into discrimination at transitions in education (contact: E. Köhler):
- Along which characteristics does institutional discrimination occur at a certain transition (secondary I, secondary II, education, etc.)?
In the field of economics (contact persons: N. Goldschmidt, E. Köhler)
- Regulatory and institutional economics
- Development economics
- Economic analysis of law
- Social policy
- History of economic thought
Teacher portal
Dear colleagues,
on the ZÖBIS teacher portal, we would like to present possible lesson series to help you plan your lessons. We have provided these with methodological suggestions and the appropriate material notes. Understandably, we can only offer you downloads of freely accessible materials. Some of our materials and training courses are offered in cooperation with Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft e.V.
offered.
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Center for Economic Education in Siegen (ZÖBIS)
1. teaching (process) research in economic education
We train teachers for social sciences at general education schools and for economics at vocational colleges. Our ideal of good economics teaching is:
- addressing current social and economic problems and discussions,
- creative and constructive work in the classroom and
- thinking and acting like economists on a small scale, based on the current state of the art in economics.
So far, little is known about how social science and economics teaching takes place in different types of schools. As lesson observations involve a great deal of effort and very high hurdles, our first step is to approach lesson research using process data and lesson inputs.
2. subject science and subject didactics
Subject-specific didactics is part of subject-specific science. Subject-specific didactics cannot be practiced without solid subject-specific training. Subject-specific science cannot do without thinking about how to teach it. For this reason, ZÖBIS does not have professorships purely in subject didactics, but rather professors who are equally active in both subject science and subject didactics and are proficient in the respective state of the art. This distinguishes ZÖBIS from other institutes and professorships for economic education in German-speaking countries.
3. a different kind of teaching is possible
We do three fundamental things differently in the training of student teachers and in teacher training courses at ZÖBIS:
- Alignment of courses with the requirements of the relevant core curricula.
- Orientation towards the Plural Economics degree program, so that the disciplinary diversity later enables students to teach controversially within the subject.
- University education that implements a double interweaving of theory and practice: interweaving of current scientific research and teaching practice as well as interweaving of didactic theory and teaching practice. For this reason, ZÖBIS is staffed by qualified subject specialists, subject didacticians and former or current teachers.
