Nowadays a variety of products increases rapidly, marketing is intensified each day, and the amount of information and advertising is still growing. These are the conditions for developing and satsifying consumers’ needs to be able to evaluate and create a certain opinion about the products considering both environmental and ethical aspects. Consumer training is important while enhancing children’s and young people’s ability to act in society nowadays. Consumer training encourages to choose rationally and to use constructively one’s knowledge and skills. Scientific aspects of the quality of life are mainly discussed from the medical point of view. However it could be viewed from the point of physiology, psychology, sociology, etc. As well, there are no researches done on how consumption culture influences the quality of life. Society is overloaded with the amount of information and permanent change, therefore a smart and educated consumer is a necessity today. It is very important to understand how a man himself/herself influences his/her and others’ quality of life.
The aim of the research is to disclose aspects of culture of consumption in the technology programmes for general education schools. Three schools (one gymnasium in Vilnius, and one gymnasium as well as one secondary school in Tauragė) were randomly chosen for the quantitative investigation. 544 respondents participated in the research.
The results of the research show that the technology programmes for general... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060607_203936-83102 |
| Date | 07 June 2006 |
| Creators | Valantinaitė, Ilona |
| Contributors | Dačiulytė, Rūta, Miškinienė, Manefa, Sederevičiūtė, Živilė, Indičianskienė, Rūta, Žygaitienė, Birutė, Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Vilnius Pedagogical University |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2006~D_20060607_203936-83102 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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