Designing a Sustainable Consumption Competency Model for Primary School Students: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis Approach

 The present study aimed at designing a model of sustainable consumption competency model for primary school students.Sustainable consumption competency is the process of developing and improving skills and knowledge This type of education can help develop critical thinking and increase people's awareness.

 What is the pattern of sustainable consumption competencies of elementary school students?  

The applied method for this piece of research is a qualitative meta-synthesis approach. Toward this goal, first, a research question was posed, and then the members of the meta-synthesis group were designated. In the second and third stages, the sources of the research data, including Scopus and Springer databases and some others, as well as articles’ inclusion criteria, were determined. In the fourth stage, by analyzing the data gathered, 56 fundamental issues related to sustainable consumption were identified. Then the synthesis of the data was done. At this time, nine underlying issues called the second level were selected. These categories include: Knowledge of economy (such as monetary and financial familiarity); socio-cultural knowledge (familiarity with the sustainable and unsustainable consumption); ecological knowledge (familiarity with the recycling methods of goods); economical skills (being skillful in buying sustainable food materials); socio-cultural skills (having the ability to recognize patterns of sustainable production and consumption); ecological skills (being able to take part in recycling); socio-cultural attitudes (social commitment and responsibility toward consumption methods); and finally ecological sense of commitment in relation to the reduction of ecological effects. The second level of the established issues incorporates three primary levels of economical, socio-cultural, and ecological categories.

 Finally, the network of sustainable consumption competency concepts pattern was drawn. The designed model provides a framework for teaching competent ways of consumption to primary school students, which was not available before. And as for Descriptive Validation As to Interpretive_Theoretical_Pragmatic Validation was used.

the result of this study showed that sunstainable consumption competency program follows fundamental change in students ‘ knowledge , skill and attitude for becoming them a conscious, active and moral citizens . The people who are not only have values and good features of the society but also they can show make and improvements of culture and they can make an ideal society.