Interdisciplinary Approaches to Consumer Culture

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 12.01.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Objective: Do you teach the same population I do?
  2. My students
  3. Rationale
  4. Teaching Impoverished Children
  5. Describing your consumer choice may change you as a consumer.
  6. Marketing Tricks
  7. Books that influenced this unit.
  8. The Big Idea
  9. Technology tools and classroom meetings
  10. Classroom Activities
  11. Appendix A: Implementing District Standards
  12. Annotated Teacher Bibliography
  13. Endnotes

Do We Really Need What We Want?: Consumerism and Second Graders

Mary Grace Flowers

Published September 2012

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Endnotes

  • Peter Menzel and Charles C. Mann. Material World: A Global Family Portrait. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1994
  • ibid
  • ibid
  • Thalia Mulvihill, "I Fight Poverty. I Work!" Examining Discourses of Poverty and Their Impact on Pre-Service Teachers." International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Apr. 2006: 99.
  • ibid
  • ibid
  • Susan Linn, Consuming kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood. New York: New Press :, 2004.
  • ibid
  • ibid
  • Elizabeth Chin, Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001) 8
  • Margaret Berry Wilson, Home Responsive Classroom, n.d. Web. 3 Aug. 2012. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org/>.
  • Caltha Crowe, Home Responsive Classroom. N.p., 11 July 2012. Web. 11 July 2012.

Comments:

Cecil Johnson

September 1, 2020 at 12:47 pm

First Year Teaching Subject

I am a new teacher teaching Family and Consumer Science at the Middle School level. I am currently trying to take years of business experience and create an interesting teaching moment for my students. Consuerism is the topic that I think is improtant to get my students up and runnning for the semester.

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