Özet:

Consumers have many rights and responsibilities in the consumption process. Consumers need to be aware of these rights and responsibilities and to act accordingly. In this context, conscious consumer education is provided to educate conscious consumers within the Turkish educational system. Consumer education covers training programs and practices prepared to educate individuals as a conscious consumer. In the course of social information classes that play an effective role in educating conscious consumers comes. The specific objectives and achievements of the 2017 Social Information Course Curriculum clearly demonstrate this effective role. The fourth. The skill of responsibility in the classroom, along with the knowledge of conscious consumer behavior, has been emphasized qualities such as creating a own budget, understanding the balance of income and expenditure, not spending resources, efficient use and saving. The goal of the 5th class is to enable the individual to exercise their rights as a conscious consumer, developing new ideas based on production, distribution and consumption. Conscious consumer issues are more intensely included in Classes 4 and 5, while Classes 6 and 7 addressed limited issues such as taxation, conscious use of resources, e-commerce. Many studies in the field of education have addressed consumer, consumer rights and conscious consumer education. But it has been found that social information is only a study that studies the lessons from the point of view of conscious consumption. In fact, social information curricula was updated in 2017 and new curricula books were printed in 2018. For this reason, the purpose of the research is to explore how the conscious consumer issues of the 4-5. class are included in the social information curricula. In this study, the method of document examination was used. The data sources of this study consist of 4th class and 5th class social information curriculum books taught in the 2018-2019 educational year. The fourth and fifth classes of social information have only been included in the study, as conscious consumption issues are emphasized in the lessons. The research has studied conscious consumer issues and identified the most commonly used concepts. It also included photos taken from books to show how the concepts find place in the lesson books. The research results show that conscious consumer issues find a broader place in the 4th class curriculum and are supported by concrete activities. In the 5th class lesson, some of the topics and concepts taught in the 4th class were discussed by the principle of inclusion and some of the new topics were included.