抄録
The purpose of this study was to explore the instructive and social effects of decision making in consumer education and ways to activate it. Learning to make decisions develops the students' abilities to analyze and judge their own thinking processes. Then, it contributes to the prevention of consumer problems. To activate the decision making process, critical thinking was effective.
The aims of studying decision making in consumer education are to ascertain what kinds of decision-making enriches life and protects and ensures the eternal reproduction of life. Consumers' decision-making must have the power to determine not only their consumption but also the state of production and the social systems. The ability of decision-making is to:
1. Identify the needs or wants of daily life.
2. Recognize what kinds of resources are needed to satisfy their own daily life.
3. Adjust and distribute human and material resources to satisfy needs or wants.
4. Collect information needed to attain goals.
5. Access the authenticity of the information gathered.
6. Evaluate the worth of the information.
7. Recognize the utility of the goods in daily life.
8. Understand the influences of consumption on the social and natural environments.
9. Discover the problems of consumption in view of the worth and continuance of life ; eternal reproduction of life.
10. Discover the problems of the social and natural environments related to value and prolongation.
