The Department of Economic Didactics at the Institute of Social Science Education focuses its research and teaching on fundamental questions of future-oriented economic and business education (for teachers). Education is considered future-oriented if it addresses current societal, (educational) political, economic, technological, ecological and social challenges and develops skills in teachers and learners that allow them to proactively contribute to overcoming these challenges.

This orientation underlines the fact that economic didactics at the Institute of Social Science Education is committed to an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach in the social sciences and, in cooperation with political didactics, makes the interdependencies between economics and politics visible and tangible.