The Department of Consumer Cotillas Towers has recently launched a school campaign of consumer education in schools in the municipality Torreño.
Under the title of 'eco-and responsible consumption, "this proposal is aimed at school Torreño between 3 and 16 years and is being taught by instructors trained in the field by the Department of Consumer and degrees such as Education, Psychology, Teaching and social education.
With two sessions per course and last approximately until next February, raised the overall objectives are, among others, to reflect on consumer habits and the impact they have on our environment, encourage responsible behavior patterns to preserve the environment or to assess the consumption of products that promote fair trade and responsible.
In addition, other objectives are to develop a critical attitude with the messages of the media about the environment, get a responsible awareness of how they affect our lives and the lives of schoolchildren new technologies or awareness of the importance, usefulness and need to use new technologies as well as its responsible use.
Many activities
To achieve its objectives, proposed activities such as stories, poems, riddles, songs and riddles (for children), games that require cooperation and promote development of social relationships, dynamics to promote safety and confidence of school , analysis of advertising campaigns, discussion forums ... It will also be launched to raise awareness group dynamics to students in the new addiction in our society (Internet, mobile phones, video games ...) and activities to promote reading creativity, etc.
"This campaign aims to bring students to the knowledge of the environment, to discover the code, be able to interpret them in the process acquiring the mechanisms for resolving problems.
It's about learning to 'read' the messages that the consumer society throws at us, "said Councilman area, Alfonso Sandoval.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas