ISHS Acta Horticulturae 97: VI Symposium on Horticultural Economics
EDUCATION OF HORTICULTURAL ENTERPRENEURS BY BUSINESS GAMES |
| Author: | S. Scholz |
| Abstract:
Knowledge and abilities will be the best capital for horticultural enterpreneurs in the future. Changing input-output-ratio strengthen the necessity to analyse the problems and to solve them by using new knowledge and economic methods. That means education will become a steady process for people in leading positions. For scientists and advicers it will be thoroughly important to use effective teaching methods in order to get a high learning-effect in education these people. One of the so-called "active learning methods" in economics are management games. Active means in this case, scholars do not get the new knowledge in lessons but they use data from teaching notes, from discussions with other participants or from the teacher while solving a problem in a given exercise. The following report shows as a brief abstract how management games can be employed. | |
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