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The purpose of this study is to broaden the range in choosing the employment by people who specialized in consumer science and to search for the direction to enhance the status of the consumer science in respect of high school students who can be potential customers in a future consumer science. While the social demand on economy education and the university students' demand on employment in respect of teaching profession are recently on the increase, the opportunity for those who majored in consumer education and consumer science to find their way into teaching career is quite limited. In this regard, this study searched for the method for those who majored in consumer science to find their way into teaching career with a focus on a living economy curriculum.
First, the current condition on consumer education at high school and the actual condition in operation of consumer science at the consumer science-related faculties were analyzed. Second, the background in introducing the living economy curriculum and the relevant actual condition in operation were analyzed. Third, the textbook for the living economy curriculum was analyzed. Lastly, along with the method to activate the living economy curriculum, the methods that should be tried by those who majored in consumer science at the consumer science-related faculties to find their way into teacher-training course in respect of the living economy curriculum were suggested.