Title: Towards 2000 - Consumer Education in the Classroom
Author: Juliet Wells
Publisher: Forbes Publications
Price: £12.95
ISBN: 1-899527-09-5

Summary: This book is a timely guide for primary and secondary teachers who want to learn about, and develop the teaching of, consumer education in their school.

It aims to promote consumer issues and demonstrate how they can be included in everyday classroom work. It includes suggestions for classroom activities at all levels. It also provides opportunities for teachers to identify and discuss a range of consumer issues within the framework of the main curriculum areas.

The book's author, Consumer Education Officer at the Consumers' Association, Juliet Wells, trained as a teacher and has spent many years working in secondary schools, teaching Home Economics and Textiles. She also spent three years working as a project officer for the Edge Hill University College Consumer Education Development Project.