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RESCUER: Combining Passive and Active Learning Techniques to Teach Food Sustainability
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Narmin Tartila Banu; Aron Darmody; Leighann C. Neilson – Journal of Marketing Education, 2024
This paper discusses the creation and implementation of an experiential learning assignment focused on the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12, which aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. Using a grounded theory approach that combines analyzing 90 senior-level marketing students' reflective essays…
Descriptors: Marketing, Active Learning, Business Administration Education, Food
Everyday Scholars: Framing Informal Learning in Terms of Academic Disciplines and Skills
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Jubas, Kaela – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2011
This article discusses shopping, especially critical shopping, as a process of informal and incidental adult learning about the intersecting politics of globalization and consumption. The author uses academic skills and disciplines as a metaphor to respond to an emerging conceptual question: To what extent can formality, informality, and…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Concept Formation, Informal Education, Figurative Language
Life Insurance Basics: A Self-Help Workbook for Consumers.
Saskatchewan Consumer and Commercial Affairs, Regina. – 1988
This booklet provides consumers with an overview of information about life insurance. Chapter 1, "Why Life Insurance?" outlines the primary purposes of life insurance coverage and presents basic facts about the Canadian life insurance industry. Chapter 2, "Do I Need Life Insurance?" discusses life insurance coverage at specific…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Consumer Protection, Foreign Countries, Programed Instruction
Consumer Protection--Who Protects You? How Can You Protect Yourself? Proceed with Caution: Consumer Safety In the Home, I.
Saskatchewan Consumer and Commercial Affairs, Regina. – 1987
The enormous and rapidly-increasing number of goods on the market makes it difficult to ensure that all consumer products are safe to use. Public concern about product safety has caused the enactment of a wide range of consumer protection laws. The result of this legislation has been that many agencies have been established to protect the public.…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Consumer Protection, Home Economics, Instructional Materials
Project Real World: Economic Living Skills for High School Students. Module V, Citizen Participation in Canada's Market-Based Society.
Federal/Provincial Consumer Education and Plain Language Task Force (Canada). – 1991
Project Real World, a self-contained, activity-based Canadian consumer science program, provides students with systematic instruction in economic living skills. It gives students in grades 10-12 an orientation to the economic realities and opportunities in society. The program helps students understand the marketplace; manage resources; apply…
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Citizenship Responsibility, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education
Project Real World: Economic Living Skills for High School Students. Module III, Resource Management Skills--What Money Can't Buy.
Federal/Provincial Consumer Education and Plain Language Task Force (Canada). – 1991
Project Real World, a self-contained, activity-based Canadian consumer science program, provides students with systematic instruction in economic living skills. It gives students in grades 10-12 an orientation to the economic realities and opportunities in society. The program helps students function effectively within the rapidly changing…
Descriptors: Banking, Citizenship Responsibility, Clothing, Consumer Education
Consumer Interests Annual. Volume 41. American Council on Consumer Interests Annual Conference (41st, Washington, D.C., March 15-18, 1995).
Folk, Karen F., Ed. – 1995
This proceedings contains the texts of 5 invited papers and 28 refereed papers. The following are among the papers included: "Consumer Interest in the 1990's and Beyond" (Turner); "Esther Peterson and the Consumer Movement" (Galbraith); "The Public's Right to Government Information" (English); "Partnerships in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adult Education, Advertising, Consumer Economics