Browsing by Author "Saastamoinen, Roosa"

This study views how consumer education is seen in the latest National core curriculum (2014). Consumer’s operational environment has changed due to the need for sustainable consumption and due to diversification of media and digitalization of technology, and this increases the pressure to enhance consumer education. I define my study to cover grades 7–9 and I will specially focus on transversal competences’ goals. The study questions are: 1. How does the latest National core curriculum (2014) boost sustainable consumer education? a. Which subjects include consumer education in upper comprehensive school? b. How is sustainable consumer education seen in the aims of transversal competence? c. How is ecological sustainability seen in home economics’ consumer education? This study is a qualitative document analysis that analyses the latest National core curriculum (2014). I divided my literature in two different themes and for the themes I selected keywords. Based on the keywords I analysed the curriculum and tabulated all sentences that include the keywords. I divided the accumulated literature even more specifically by subjects and the aims of transversal competence. The study suggests that even though there is no own subject for consumer education, the educational and learning aims related to sustainable consumption are very extensively present in the National core curriculum (2014). Even in the curriculum’s foundation of values it is advised to consider the conflicts between consumerism and sustainable lifestyle. The skills of transversal competence are obligatory for all subjects and in those skills consumer and economical education is viewed.