Arctic Pollution Issues: A State of the Arctic Environment Report

Cathrin Lundqvist

Description

• mémoire
• cours - matière potentielle : perfor - mance

• risk for cancer
• pcbs
• ddt
• contaminants
• reproductive effects
• human health
• levels
• humans
• cancer
• exposure

Sujets

• Mémoire
• Nikel
• Greenland
• Canadá
• Level
• Exposure
• Health
• Effect
• Cancer

Informations

• Publié par: esla
• Nombre de lectures: 31
• Langue: English

Extrait

Consumer education/consumer rights
in Finnish Basic Schools

Kristina Kaihari
Counsellor of Education

Teaching consumer competences –
consumer rights from curriculum to real life
Karlstad 9.12. 2011

For education and learning Consumer education/ backround
Finnish Governement’s Consumer Policy
Programme 2008-2011, next Programme 2012-
2015 will be introduced on January 2012
Economics and consumer education is included in
National Core Curricula for
• Preschool (2010)
• Basic Education (2004)
• Upper Secondary Education (2003)
• Vocational and Adult Education and training
(2010)

For education and learning Consumer education in basic schools
Informed consumption is important part of civic
skills and closely combined with financial and
media literacy, active citizenship skills as well as
with sustainable development/future
->pupils have to understand that as a consumer
one has not only the rights but also
responsibilities and opportunities to influence.
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For education and learning Consumer education in National Core
Curriculum/Basic Schools
Consumer education is not an independent
subject - its contents, skills and knowledge are
learned as part of all the subjects through cross-
curricular themes and especially by some subjects
Cross-curricular themes:
Media skills and communication
Objectives
the pupil will learn to take critical stance towards
contents conveyed by the media, and to ponder
the related values of ethics and aesthetics in
communication
For education and learning Consumer education in National core
Curriculum/Cross-curricular themes
Media skills and communication
Core contents
analysis and interpretation of the content and
purpose of messages, change in the communication
environment, and multimedia communication
media's role and influence in society, and the
relationship between reality and the world depicted
by the media
working with the media
data security, freedom of speech, and critiquing
sources
For education and learning
Consumer education in National core
Curriculum/ Cross-curricular themes
Responsibility for the environment, well-being, and a
sustainable future/ objectives:
learn to evaluate the impacts of their consumption and daily
practices, and will adopt the courses of action required for
sustainable development
come to understand that, through their choices, individuals
construct both their own futures and our common future; the
pupils will learn to act constructively for a sustainable future.
Core contents:
consumer behaviour, management of one's own household,
and the consumer's means of influence

For education and learning Consumer education in National Core
Curriculum/ Subjects
Home economics/objectives:
the pupils will
– learn to think about everyday household management
and its connections with their own choices and
activities
– learn to act as considerate, responsible consumers, and
to be aware of problems related to consumption
Core contents:
The consumer and changing society
– consumer’s responsibility and opportunities for
influence
– obtaining and using products and services
– Environmental impacts of consumption
For education and learning
Consumer education in National Core
Curriculum/ Subjects
Social studies/Citizenship and Economics
Education (9th grade)/ objectives
the pupils will
-take an interest in social participation and
exerting an influence
-learn to examine and develop their abilities as
responsible consumers and players in society
-know the legal consequences of their actions


For education and learning Consumer education in National core
Curriculum
Social studies/Citizenship and Economics Education
Core contents

Exerting influence and decision-making
• Opportunities for citizens to have an impact
• Media and social influence

Security of the citizen
• The justice system, the individual’s rights and
obligations, legal responsibility



For education and learning Consumer education in National core
Curriculum
Social studies/Citizenship and Economics Education
Core contents
Managing one's finances
• principles of managing private finances
• work and entrepreneurship
Economics
• the individual and households as consumers and
economic players
• the importance of foreign trade and the global economy

And in other subjects:
• mother tongue, mathematics, environmental and natural
sciences,biology and chemistry, visual arts


For education and learning