Home Economics incorporates various media education themes, such as completing research, fostering human relationships, education about consumerism, and resource management. In the Intermediate Level Home Economics Program: Overview and Organization, the Canadian Home Economics Association defines the subject as:
The purpose of the Learning Strategies open elective credit is to help students “gain transferable skills and strategies that will enhance and increase their school engagement…”[1]
There are five key areas pertaining to the course:
Career Development 10 “prepares students with broad strokes to prepare for the workplace.”[1] Alongside learning self-assessment and increasing their self-awareness, students will “examine the changing world of work and analyse ways they can be prepared for a future that is constantly evolving.”[2] Financial literacy makes up a large part of this course because students will be introduced to “budgeting, financial decision making and money management strategies…”[3] Career Development 11 carries on from its precursor, by “building on students’ developing personal and financial aw
Indigenous people remain highly stereotyped in most mass media, in ways that are sometimes less remarked upon than stereotypes of other groups. This section examines how Indigenous people are represented, and participate, in various media and how media education can help both Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth understand the impact of stereotyped representations.