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

Safe and Healthy Consumers

The ability to understand and interprete consumer information is central to good consumer decision making. This section contains a number of activities aimed at developing these skills. Each of the activities is linked to an aspect of the curriculum in Ireland.

Competence 1 : use and evaluate information

Learners are able to distinguish between information and advertising for food / health products and evaluate them Read more

Competence 2 : apply consumer knowledge to health management

Learners are able to understand and apply consumer knowledge to individual health management and demonstrate confident and appropriate use of consumer rights Read more

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