In the international policy discourse on sustainable consumption and production, education is acknowledged to be a powerful tool in changing unsustainable patterns of consumption. Current educational policies and programmes have responded to the consumption challenge mainly by including and addressing consumption issues in formal tuition in…

This report describes the development and implementation of a four-semester course in consumer economics at the 11th and 12th grade levels. Developed by the social studies chairperson of a high school in Woodbury, New Jersey, for a practicum in an ED.D. program, the course is intended to enable students to more intelligently exercise judgment in…

Consumer education may be included in the curriculum in four ways: (1) as a separate course; (2) taught jointly by a home economics teacher and a business education teacher; (3) taught by teams of teachers in home economics, business education, and social studies; and (4) by including consumer education subject matter in a course in business, home…