THE NEW PERSPECTIVES TO IMPLEMENT CONSUMER ECUCATION AND CONSISTENCY OF ITS CURRICULUM FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS

1. 1989年修订的《消费者教育课程》，使消费者教育适应了时代的变化，标志着消费者教育史上的第二个时代。这不是对70年代强调“保护消费者”的第一个时代的超越，而是要求培养消费者自立的“新时代”。通过对美国PCCI消费者教育指导方针和美国经济学与消费者教育教学计划的研究，阐明了有效实施新消费者教育的具体观点和方法，在英国国家课程中跨课程主题的研究和实际意义之后，我认为是时候在学校课程中组织消费者教育的学习活动以及上述主题。我设法帮助NICE研究小组的成员利用美国在消费者教育方面的教学资源制定教学计划，同时我实施了消费者教育的跨课程主题。 ...更多信息 调查日本学生的消费意识。通过这些研究，笔者发现作为消费者教育“组织中心”的三个因素必然与多个学科相关。上述三个因素是：（1）重视通过批判性思维学习决策过程（2）重视帮助学生意识到并改善他们作为消费者的生活哲学（3）重视充分利用学生经验的学习活动。作为这项研究的结果，“社会研究和消费者教育”发表在琦玉大学（教育学院）学报，第41卷，第1期，1992年，“研究报告”作为进一步的研究结果发表。此外，根据研究主题的“小学消费者教育”和“初中消费者教育”将作为主要文章发表在琦玉县政府编辑的“消费者生活相关教材”中。“消费者教育的新时代和设计其教学计划的提示”将作为NICE（国家消费者教育研究所）研究小组最终报告的主要文章发表。

1. The revision of Course of Study in 1989 put empahsis on consumer education in accordance with the changing world, and marked the 2nd epoch in the history of consumer education. It's not the succesion to the 1st epoch emphasizing "Protection of Consumer" in the 1970's, but the very "New Epoch" that requires fostering of self-reliance as consumers.2. I've clarified the concrete viewpoints and ways to implement New consumer education efficiently, by studying the PCCI's guidelines on consumer education and the teaching plans in economics and consumer education in the U.S., and actual siginificances of cross-curricular themes in the National Curriculum in the U.K.After the studies I concluded it was the time to organize learning activities on consumer education in the school curriculum as well as the themes mentioned above.I managed to help members of the Research Team in NICE draw up teaching plans using the U.S.teaching resouces in terms of consumer education, while I implemeted the su … More rvey of Japanese students' awareness on consumer affairs. These studies helped me discover three factors as "Organizing center" of consumer education inevitably related to several subjects. Three factors above are :(1) putting emphasis on learning of decision making processes through critical thinking(2) putting emphasis to help students become aware of and improve the philosophy of their lives as consumers(3) putting emphasis on learning activities that make good use of students' experiences.4. As a result of this research, "Social Studies and Consumer Education" was published in Journal of Saitama University(Faculty of Education), vol.41, No.1, 1992, and "Research Report" is published as a further result of the research. In addition, "Consumer Education in Elementary Schools" in accordance with the research theme as well as "Consumer Ecucation in Lower Secondary Schools" is going to be published as a leading article in "Teaching Materials Related to Consumer Life" edited by Saitama Prefecural Government. "New Epoch of Consumer Education and the Hints for Designing its Teaching Plans" is going to be published as a leading article in the final report of the research team in NICE (National Institute on Consumer Education) Less