抄録
The purpose of this paper is to verify whether Mini-Műnchen, a city planning simulation for German children, is an effective educational tool for teaching consumer independence in Japanese consumer education classes. The main results indicate that: 1) Mini-Műnchen is an effective tool for increasing consumer independence in consumer education classes as well as developing student identity, consumer skills, and consumer citizenship. However, improvements in global citizenship were limited. 2) The effect of Mini-Műnchen is stronger with German students than with Japanese students in terms of consumer education. 3) It will be necessary to introduce an international aspect into the Japanese Mini-Műnchen in the future.
