PRAKTISCHER UNTERRICHT IN WIRTSCHAFTSWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN FÄCHERN IM HOCHSCHULBEREICH, BERICHT ÜBER EINEN VERSUCH

The study intends to establish teaching a discipline belonging to the field of social sciences („the labor market‟) as an academic subject in a practical successful form. The purpose of teaching that subject is to provide an overview of the operation of the labor market along with the international and Hungarian unemployment situation. Studying the subject teaches students to understand the processes of the labor market, to provide explanations of its various correlations, disseminating an attitude along with a flexible knowledge-base. As the students will use some parts of that subject in their future work, it becomes necessary to provide the course as a combination of lectures and practical training. The study, which is only one component of a complex research program, involved a questionnaire survey of 200 people in order to determine whether this subject in the social sciences can be taught successfully through independent tasks and group work. According to our hypothesis, the preference that students exhibit for practical training among the available forms of training is also the case for a social science subject, preferring sessions that require active participation and creativity. The findings indicate that students‟ demand for activity and creativity is borne out by the types of practical methods they indicate preferences for. Based on the results of the study, the compilation of a collection of methodologies for the subject is planned that could also be used to support practical training in any other subject within the social sciences.