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Our project partner AXA Investment Managers today published a short video about our mutual PolECulE-project, focusing on different voices from students, the project staff, the ministry and partners. Unser Projektpartner, die AXA Investment Managers, hat heute einen Videoclip über unse

Apart from developing teaching materials and teacher training seminars, networking with the (international) research community is one of PolECulE’s core concerns. Last November 2018, Subin Nijhawan presented his research and PolECulE at the 7th International Conference on Teaching Eng

Shortly, a new PolECulE publication will be released. Its German title “Politik und Wirtschaft bilingual unterrichten” roughly translates as “Bilingual Social Science Education.” The compact volume offers a curricular framework as well as an overview of teaching methods and an exempla

As Managing Director of the German-British Society Rhein-Main, Michael Gehrig, one of the initiators of the PolECulE project, was recently interviewed by FNP (Frankfurter Neue Presse) regarding his opinion on Great Britain’s plan to leave the European Union. In the interview published

PolECulE wants to bridge the gap between theory and practice, between university research and practical implementation. The cooperation of university and school thus stands in the foreground. Pragmatism, democratization and stakeholder participation within the educational discourse an

From November 6th to December 22nd, 2017, the practical phase of PolECule was launched with the beginning of a field project by our Research Associate Subin Nijhawan in his 10th grade at Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium Frankfurt. The research was mainly directed towards defining innovat

The last blog entry gravitated around the idea to develop global discourse competences to underscore the aims of our project. In other words, bilingual lessons in Politics, Economics & Culture should be characterized by a discursive environment, which is global in its nature. The

The first months of the project mainly dealt with the overall issue about the conceptual design of lessons in Politics, Economics & Culture. We looked at competencies of the subjects English and Politics & Economics, respectively, and believe that “global discourse competence”