Description

The resource aims to:

• Explore responsible and ethical consumer behaviour
• Learn and engage with and from sustainable business ideas
• Examine tax and debt as global justice issues
• Explore the linkages between economic systems, the environment and equality.

This resource explores a number of key issues: the global debt crisis, why is Ireland in so much debt, climate change insurance, consumer spending (consumption), tax havens and the conduct of multinational companies, and uses active learning and a multiplicity of hands-on games, factsheets and exercises.

A number of country-based case studies are explored from: Ireland, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Sudan.

Not Business As Usual integrates learning outcome linked to each of the three Business Studies strands of learning with suggestions for classroom based assessments:

Strand 1 Personal Finance: LOs 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.9, 1.10

Strand 2 Enterprise:  LOs 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.11

Strand 3 Our Economy: 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9

This resource also links to the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically:

• Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
• Goal 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
• Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
• Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
• Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
• Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals