A solid financial education for children and young adults enables them to participate socially in current public debates. Rising prices, inflation, bottlenecks on the energy market are headlines that adolescents perceive on a daily basis.
In an interview for the Neue Berliner Redaktionsgesellschaft, Prof. Roland Happ (Institute for Business Education at the Faculty of Economics) highlighted the importance of supposedly underestimated learning opportunities for financial education among children and young adults. This includes pocket money, which can play an important role in financial education in the conversation between parents and children. Consequences of inflation and price increases can also be understood in a playful way.
The article was published in the Südwest Presse and the Lausitzer Rundschau, among others, and can be accessed via the following links: