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Framing consumer culture as a powerful social institution that must be challenged and reformed, the position paper defines sustainable consumption, identifies symptoms of unsustainable consumption, and outlines barriers to sustainable consumption. 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Couched in framing the consumer culture as a powerful social institution that needs to be challenged and reformed, the position paper begins by defining sustainable consumption, including symptoms of unsustainable consumption and barriers to consuming sustainably. This is followed by a description of the social reconstructivist curriculum philosophy and model. Related contributions include ESC values, principles, and issues, the notion of catalytic education, and a description of instructional strategies recommended to help put social reconstructivism-informed ESC curricula  \ninto motion. The intent is to create a generation of learners who see themselves as social change agents by assuming that ownership of learning leads to ownership of actions.  \nKeywords: education for sustainable consumption, social reconstructivism, catalytic education, consumer culture, social institutions  \nCanadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l’éducation 42:3 (2019)©2019 Canadian Society for the Study of Education/ Société canadienne pour l’étude de l’éducation  \n[www.cje-rce.ca](www.cje-rce.ca)  \nRésumé  \nDans cet article, le reconstructivisme social est présenté comme une philosophie de curriculum appropriée en éducation à la consommation durable (ÉCD) . Poussé à qualifier la « culture de consommation » d’institution sociale puissante nécessitant d’être contestéeet réformée, ce document de synthèse commence par définir la consommation durable, incluant les signes extérieurs d’une consommation non durable et les obstacles à la consommation durable. Ensuite, une description de la philosophie et du modèle du curriculum de reconstruction sociale est présentée. Les sujets abordés : les valeurs, les principes et les enjeux de l’ÉCD, la notion d’éducation catalytique et une description des stratégies éducatives recommandées afin d’aider la mise en œuvre de programmes d’études ÉCD axés sur le reconstructivisme social, font également partie des apports de cette synthèse. L’intention est de former une génération d’apprenants qui se considèrent comme des agents de changement social sur la présomption qu’une prise en charge des apprentissages mène à une prise en charge des actions.  \nMots-clés : éducation à la consommation durable, reconstructivisme social, éducation catalytique, culture de consommation, institution sociale  \nCanadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l’éducation 42:3 (2019) [www.cje-rce.ca](www.cje-rce.ca)  \nIntroduction  \nWe live in a world with rampant unsustainable consumption; things have to change. Position papers,“a legitimate and important form of [scholarly] discourse”(Kennedy, 2007, p. 139), entail an explicit expression of a position on an issue. This position paper develops the idea that schools need to become agents of change for education for sustainable consumption (ESC), which inherently reflects the social reconstructivist curriculum orientation. This approach holds that the curriculum is responsible to and serves society and that schools are powerful agents for reconstructing society for the betterment of all. It deals with using schools to teach students how to effect cultural and societal change. It involves altering cultural and social institutions from the perspectives of critical consciousness, reflexivity, and social responsibility (Sowell, 2000) .  \nOne such institution is the consumer culture, which sorely needs to be reformed and reconstructed, starting with socializing younger generations of learners to their deep role in making this happen (Thoresen, 2010) . 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