ECONOMY LITERACY STEP BY STEP: THE ALTERNATIVE WAYS FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES LESSONS

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The aim of this study is to give suggestions increasing the economy literacy levels of the students at the primary school level. The alternative ways were presented to the teachers for the Social Studies lessons by examining the samples in the literature in this direction. This study is in the literature scanning model. Today’s students shall face with more complicated economy subjects while making the decisions that will affect their lives when they became adults. The individuals not literate economically and who are void of applying the economic judgment skills, shall consider the economic problems faced by them when both they were young and also they became adults complicated and threatening. The young people can understand the global economy only when learned the economy subjects and thus they have roles much better in their country’s economic system. Therefore it is quite important for today’s young people to understand how the economy affects the humans’ lives in the triangle of the producer, consumer and good citizen. The activities to be applied by the teachers in the Social Studies lessons while they teach the economy subjects, shall help to the teachers to learn the economy subjects seem hard and complicated in both enjoyable and also permanent ways.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Economy literacy, primary school, Social Studies, effective citizen, alternative ways.

ADIM ADIM EKONOMİ OKURYAZARLIĞI: SOSYAL BİLGİLER DERSLERİ İÇİN ALTERNATİF YOLLAR

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Bu çalışmanın amacı ilköğretim düzeyinde öğrencilerin ekonomi okuryazarlık düzeylerini arttırıcı önerilerde bulunmaktır. Bu doğrultuda literatürdeki örnekler incelenerek Sosyal Bilgiler dersleri için öğretmenlere alternatif yollar sunulmuştur. Bu çalışma literatür taraması modelindedir. Bugünün öğrencileri, yetişkin bireyler olduklarında hayatlarını etkileyecek kararları alırken daha karmaşık ekonomi konuları ile karşılaşacaklardır. Ekonomi açısından okuryazar olmayan ve ekonomik muhakeme becerilerini uygulamaktan yoksun olan bireyler, hem gençken hem de yetişkin olduklarında karşılaştıkları ekonomi sorunlarını karmaşık ve endişe verici bulacaklardır. Gençler ancak ekonomi konularını öğrendiklerinde küresel ekonomiyi anlayabilirler ve böylece ülkelerinin ekonomik sistemi başarıya ulaşmış olur. Bu nedenle bugünün gençleri için ekonominin üretici, tüketici ve iyi vatandaş üçgeninde insanların yaşamını nasıl etkilediğini anlaması oldukça önemlidir. Sosyal Bilgiler derslerinde öğretmenlerin ekonomi konularını öğretirken uygulayacakları etkinlikler, öğrencilerin zor ve karmaşık görülen ekonomi konularını hem zevkli hem de kalıcı bir şekilde öğrenmelerine yardımcı olacaktır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Ekonomi okuryazarlığı, ilköğretim, Sosyal Bilgiler, etkili vatandaş, alternatif yollar.

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