Abstract (eng)
The regionally significant acting of humans takes center stage in the subject Geography and Economics. This can be identified by examining the curricula of the subject: the curriculum for lower grades states that students should learn to responsibly interact with the environment (cf. BM:BWK 2000: 1) and in the one for upper levels an education towards a global responsibility for our “one world” (cf. BM:BWK 2004: 1) is demanded. In times of proceeding climate change, neo-liberalism (in which the state is noticea-bly withdrawing from the market) and a society, which is getting increasingly disunited, the reflected acting of every human being is of utmost importance. However, this kind of acting has to be learned. In the theory of MANNHEIM (cf. 1980), knowledge which leads to acting can be gained best in so called conjunctive rooms of experience. Such rooms of experience can, for instance, be established by letting students participate directly at their school location. In the didactic concept called Global Learning, the school site can be seen as a practical learning location, in which global problems are uncovered on a local level. Hence, this diploma thesis deals exemplarily with the participation of students in cocreating the sustainability of their school site. By means of didactical academic literature the ideal arrangement of those learning environments for Geography and Economics classes is worked out. Furthermore, this diploma thesis will determine, which skills the students are acquiring in those kinds of learning situations. To conclude, qualitative interviews with teachers and students should help to assert, whether students actually gain conjunctive knowledge through the academic confrontation with sustainability.