It is rather difficult to describe economic
education in Germany: (1) Due to German
federalism the sixteen German Länder (2)
are independent in terms of educational
policy. Thus the German educational
system differs slightly from Land to Land,
even more heterogenous is the situation
of economic education. With regard to this
it is impossible to give a detailed picture of
the whole, but it is useless to present the
situation in only one land.
This report tries to do the impossible by
giving a rough overview of the situation of
economic education in Germany at school
as well as at university. Above all it is
concerned with outlining the gap between
claim and reality of economic education. A
summary about the main topics of the
didactic discussion can reflect contents and methods, which influence the
syllabus construction.