Consumer Education

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Introduction to consumer education
Finance Management
- Competence 1 : managing finances
  - Teaching and learning approaches
  - Teaching and learning tools
- Competence 2 : undertake financial risk assessement
  - Teaching and learning approaches
  - Teaching and learning tools
Safe and Healthy Consumers
- Competence 1 : use and evaluate information
  - Teaching and learning approaches
  - Teaching and learning tools
- Competence 2 : apply consumer knowledge to health management
  - Teaching and learning approaches
  - Teaching and learning tools
Responsible Consumers
- Competence 1 : reflect on and evaluate consumption patterns
  - Teaching and learning approaches
  - Teaching and learning tools
- Competence 2 : analyse product quality and promote sustainability
  - Teaching and learning approaches
  - Teaching and learning tools
Services
- Competence 1 : demonstrate consumer responsibility towards the use of services
  - Teaching and learning approaches
  - Teaching and learning tools
- Competence 2 : recognize consumers influence on service quality
  - Teaching and learning approaches
  - Teaching and learning tools

Legal validation: 15/03/2011

Responsible Consumers

This section aims to develop awareness in the learners that by our decisions and actions as consumers we not only determine the quality of life today, both locally and globally, but we can also influence the fate of future generations.

Competence 1 : reflect on and evaluate consumption patterns

Learners are able to reflect on and understand individual consumption patterns and analyse their effects on global society, environment and individual life quality. Read more

Competence 2 : analyse product quality and promote sustainability

Learners are able to distinguish between differing concepts for product quality (from the producers, the traders and consumers perspective) and actively promote sustainability through advocacy and choices. Read more

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