Consumer Citizenship project

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The dramatic changes in lifestyle in recent decades have resulted in cultural, economic and technological transformations which require a broader understanding of the individual’s role in local communities and in the global society.

Publisert: 01.12.2002 12:00

Consumer education and teacher training: developing consumer citizenship is a Comenius 2.1 transnational three year project whose aim is to further co-operation between European countries in the field of consumer education in the context of citizenship development. The central issues which this project will deal with are:

• How can education contribute to a wider vision of the consumer as an active, responsible participant in the development of a just and safe world?
• In what ways does the exercise of citizenship include the practice of aware, critical choices in the marketplace?
• To what extent are lifestyles which neither limit the development of other human beings nor destroy the world’s environment prerequisites for being a good citizen?

Read more here: Hedmark University College