Financial Education: A Guide to Responsible Consumption in Schools

 

Financier publishes an educational guide for secondary school teachers. It offers around fifty innovative tools for understanding the challenges of financial education from the perspective of responsible consumption.

Financial Education Essential but Still Too Little Present at School

Having a sufficient level of financial education is necessary and enables people to improve their financial well-being by making effective decisions. In French-speaking Belgium, financial education is not part of the school curriculum and few spaces allow this learning if it is not done through the transmission of family knowledge.

But the acquisition of skills strictly related to financial education (credit, budgeting, management, ...), is not sufficient to allow all citizens (including students) to make conscious and responsible choices. in his acts of consumption.

An Educational Repository for Secondary School Teachers

This is why, at the request of the Minister of Education, the Financier Network has produced an educational framework for secondary school teachers to understand the concept of financial education from the point of view of consumption. responsible.

The guide dissects around fifty tools related to responsible consumption by considering it from various facets: environmental, economic tuition, ethical, social, media education and participatory citizenship.

The tools address themes such as cooperatives, the notion of common goods and overexploitation, sustainable consumption, the impact of investments on people and their environment, the role of money ... but also more "classic" concepts of financial education such as budget, savings, credit…. More visit: Besteconstuition Thanks.

 


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