Geography & Economics

The didactics of geography and economics, like any subject didactics, is an applied science. According to Hilbert Meyer, it deals with the question of "who should learn what, when, with whom, where, how, with what, why and for what purpose". In practice, some of these questions are answered by institutional guidelines, which in turn can be the subject of different articulations of interests. In theory, however, all questions can be discussed. Subject didactics provides empirical results on the prerequisites of learning, on the effects of different learning arrangements and on the influence of social requirements on learning. It also participates in the implementation of the findings in the context of both education policy and teaching practice. The Salzburg Didactics of Geography and Economics deals with, among other things, research-based learning, argumentation skills and socio-economic education as part of the combined teaching subject GW.