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A Praxis Approach to Financial Literacy Education
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Blue, Levon Ellen; Grootenboer, Peter – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2019
Financial literacy education (FLE) typically focuses on teaching skills and capabilities that promote individual wealth accumulation--for example, the importance of working, budgeting and saving. In this article, we argue the need to move from an individual wealth accumulation focus in FLE to a praxis approach to FLE. We outline the shortcomings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Praxis, Money Management, Consumer Education
Philosophical Teaching-and-Learning and the Valuing of Virtues
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Roger Sutcliffe – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2022
This piece maintains that, despite 50+ years of successful practice and development, Philosophy for Children (henceforward, P4C) is undervalued--but that, suitably re-presented, it may yet become the most important agent of educational change of the 21st century: a change that is essential, if not existential, given the challenges facing humanity.…
Descriptors: Ethics, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Change Agents
Fairtrade in Schools: Teaching Ethics or Unlawful Marketing to the Defenceless?
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Griffiths, Peter – Ethics and Education, 2014
Schools in the UK teach pupils about Fairtrade as part of Religious Education, Personal and Social Education, Citizenship, Geography and so on. There are also Fairtrade Schools, where the whole school, including staff and parents, is committed to promoting the brand. It is argued here that promoting this commercial brand to schoolchildren and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Teaching Methods
Teaching Ideas.
Middleton, Kathleen, Ed. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1979
Ideas to aid the classroom teacher include integration of emphasis on reading into health education; definitions pertinent to contemporary health education; teaching students to read food labels; identification of implications of scientific advances such as test tube reproduction; and a card game to teach food groups to middle school children.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Consumer Education, Educational Media, Elementary Education
The Mode of Professional Teaching Practice of FCS Teacher-Leaders and Non-Teacher-Leaders.
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Fox, Candace K.; Laster, Janet F. – 2002
A study was conducted to determine which of the following modes of professional practice is the dominant mode used by Ohio family and consumer science (FCS) teachers when implementing a refined critical science based curriculum: technical-rational; reflective-ethical; and process-oriented. The target population consisted of 1,013 secondary…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Consumer Education, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Health Care Organization and Issues. An Instructor Resource Guide. Appendix to a Final Report on the Paraprofessional Rurally Oriented Family Home Health Training Program.
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Wallace, Susan W.; Myer, Donna Foster – 1983
This instructor's resource guide, one in a series of products from a project to develop an associate degree program for paraprofessional rural family health promoters, deals with teaching a course in health care organization and issues. Covered in the first section of the guide are the role of health care organization and health issues in rural…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Associate Degrees, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques