On December 4^th and 5^th 2014 the Chair of Economics and Economic Education hosted the Second International Conference of the section Financial Education of the German Society for Economic Education (DeGöB e. V). The publication from July 9^th 2014 of the results of the data acquisition 2012 for the add on-option “Financial Literacy” is taken as a reason for a scientific debate about the construct, the measuring instrument and the results. Therefore we could gain Ms. Adele Atkinson (OECD, Paris) as well as other well-known speakers from Germany and Austria.
from the left: Adele Atkinson, Sabrina Berg, Thomas Retzmann, Bettina Fuhrmann, Georg Tafner -------------------------------------------------- The German Society for Economic Education e. V can be traced back to the Bundesfachgruppe for Economic Education which was founded in 1978. Fundamental aims of the society are the advancement of the scientific development of Economic Education as well as the establishment of Economic Education in schools and the teacher training for Economic Education. Prof. Dr. Thomas Retzmann was Member of the Managing Board of the German Society for Economic Education e. V. from 2004 to 2013 and CEO from 2009 to 2013. He is head of the section Financial Education since 2014.