Economic Culture among Faculty of Education Students in Egypt: Faculty of Education - Alexandria University as a Model

Economic culture for Faculty of Education students is essential, especially considering the government's interest in pursuing a sustainable society. These teachers-to be students are instrumental in achieving educational goals. This study aims to explore the economic culture among fourth-year students at the Faculty of Education, Alexandria University. This institution serves as a model for education colleges, encompassing both scientific and literary streams and diverse income groups.
To achieve the study's objective, the researcher employed a descriptive methodology to analyze the concepts of economy, culture, and economic culture objectives. Additionally, a structured individual interview was conducted with a representative sample of 164 fourth-year students to assess their awareness of the characteristics and objectives of economic culture.
The study revealed a low level of economic culture among these students. Specifically, only 6% demonstrated rational consumer behavior in managing resources like money and time, and 4% showed productive behavior in optimizing these resources. The results favored male students over female students, literary students over scientific ones, students from families with incomes between 5801 -16600 EGP over other income groups, students with monthly expenses exceeding 1500 EGP over others, and working students over non-working ones.
The study also found variations in the impact of parents' education on students' economic behavior. Rational consumer behavior was more prevalent among students whose parents had an average level of education compared to those with below-average or university-level education. However, the impact of parents' education level (primary, intermediate, university) on students' productive behavior was equally distributed )1:1:1).