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The curriculum framework at a glance

All 25 professional competencies of the basic subject Economics and Law from the framework curriculum 2024 (PEC 2024) – arranged in three levels, filtered according to transversal anchors.

 

3 Learning areas

12 Sub-areas

25 Skills

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Paths of economic development

Building on lessons about economic growth, students reflect on possible paths of future economic development. The focus deliberately shifts to the phenomenon of economic growth and its limits in light of the physical limites of the Earth system.

  • Technical: 2.2a Analyze economic development and its interaction with society and ecology, and assess limits to growth (Sub-area 2.2. Economic development, planetary and social limits)
  • Transversal: ESD - Education for Sustainable Development
  • Interdisciplinary: Systems thinking, model thinking, forward-looking thinking (scenarios), problem-solving, decision-making ability, cooperation skills

Level 1 - Why

The educational mission

  • General study aptitude
  • Advanced social maturity
  • Perception and orientation skills
  • Analytical and judgment skills
  • Decision-making and reflection skills

Each competence contributes to the dual main goal of secondary education and to the three skills of the subject

Learning areas and professional competencies

Level 2 - What

1. Business Adminstration

6 skills

1.1 Corporate and Business Models
  • 1.1a to compare the diversity of companies based on characteristics
  • 1.1b Explain the interactions between the company and its environment using business models and assess entrepreneurial decisions in conflicting objectives.
  • 1.1c To demonstrate elements and success factors of entrepreneurial activity using a business model.
  • 1.2a To assess entrepreneurial activity (entrepreneurship) according to economic, social and ecological dimensions using concepts of business ethics.
  • 1.3a Evaluate financing options
  • 1.3b Interpreting business transactions and reports and deriving appropriate measures

2. Economics

10 Skills

2.1 Economic concepts and models
  • 2.1a to utilize the plurality of economic concepts, models, thinking and analysis tools, and to take their limitations into account
  • 2.1b Assessing market mechanisms and the role of the state in the economy
  • 2.2a Analyze economic development and its interaction with society and ecology, and assess the limits to growth.
  • 2.2b Analyze phases of prosperity and economic crises and explain their causes.
  • 2.3a Explain income distribution and inequalities, and assess measures for social compensation.
  • 2.3b Distinguish the causes of unemployment and evaluate measures to combat unemployment.
  • 2.4a describe the development of the monetary economy and explain the role of commercial banks and the central bank
  • 2.4b Explain monetary disturbances and their effects
  • 2.5a Describe the causes and dimensions of globalization and deglobalization, and assess the resulting conflicts.
  • 2.5b Comparing and evaluating different forms of trade policy

3. Law

9 skills

3.1 Tradition and evolution
  • 3.1a explain the evolutionary nature of law and the importance of the legal system for conflict prevention and conflict resolution
  • 3.1b Public law and private law differ
  • 3.1c Applying legal thinking and working methods to legal questions
  • 3.2a Explain the principles of the rule of law and apply them to legal cases
  • 3.2b Explain state organization, political institutions and procedures, and highlight opportunities for political participation.
  • 3.2c Distinguish between categories of fundamental rights and apply their limitations to legal cases.
  • 3.3a Explain the basic principles of criminal law and apply them to legal cases.
  • 3.4a Explain the basic principles of personal law and apply them to legal cases
  • 3.4b Explain the basic principles of contract law and apply them to legal cases.

Level 3 - With what

With the modules we are creating !