Consumer Citizenship Education for Fostering Legal Literacy: Developing Materials for Teacher Training Course Students

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25381254
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: Osaka Kyoiku University
• Principal Investigator: OHMOTO Kumiko 大阪教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (30548748)
• Research Collaborator: Tan Michelle
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 消費者市民教育 / リーガルリテラシー / 大学生 / 教員養成 / 授業シラバス / 教材冊子

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To create a just and sustainable society, consumer citizens must have the knowledge and sense of responsibility to make informed decisions and take action. We have called this ability and knowledge consumer legal literacy. Our research has developed a curriculum for teaching consumer legal literacy within the framework of consumer education. Specifically, we created a syllabus and teaching materials for university students studying to become teachers.
Following observations of innovative consumer education programs in Australia and Singapore, we created this curriculum that simplifies ethical concepts and varies by education level. Ethical decision making and acting with a sense of responsibility and consideration for others are necessary skills for consumer citizens who wish to better society. The curriculum we have created is one effort to contribute to this objective.

Free Research Field

教科教育