摘要：This study developed an experience-based economic education program and examined is effects on young children's economic concepts and purchasing bchavior. Subjects were 60 5-year-old kindergarteners assigned to an experimental or a control group. Intruments for pre- and post-tests were the Economic Concept Task (Laney,1995) and the Purchasing Behavior Task (Jang,2004). Experimental group children prticipated in the economie education program for 5 weeks;control group children listened to economic stories. Differences between pre- and post-test in the experimental group showed that the economic education program was efective in developrment of concepts of scarcit,opportunity cost, resourcreprouction,gos/serics,and complents/subits. Children's purchasing behavior changed parially after application of the program.
