Financialization, Financial Literacy, and Social Education

This book examines financial literacy from various sociological, historical, and cultural perspectives, including indigenous peoples, critical race theory, and transdisciplinary approaches. It offers innovative teaching concepts and discusses the ideologies that drive traditional and critical perspectives on financial literacy. The book aims to prompt a re-examination of financial literacy and its relationship to citizenship education and will appeal to students, academics, and researchers across multiple disciplines.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 282 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The objective of this book is to prompt a re-examination of financial literacy, its social foundations, and its relationship to citizenship education. The collection includes topics that concern indigenous peoples' perspectives, critical race theory, and transdisciplinary perspectives, which invite a dialogue about the ideologies that drive traditional and critical perspectives.

This volume offers readers opportunities to learn about different views of financial literacy from a variety of sociological, historical, and cultural perspectives. The reader may perceive financial literacy as representing a multifaceted concept best interpreted through a non-segregated lens. The volume includes chapters that describe groundings for revising standards, provide innovative teaching concepts, and offer unique sociological and historical perspectives. This book contains 13 chapters, with each one speaking to a distinctive topic that, taken as a whole, offers a well-rounded vision of financial literacy to benefit social education, its research, and teaching. Each chapter provides a response from an alternative view, and the reader can also access an eResource featuring the authors' rejoinders. It therefore offers contrasting visions about the nature and purpose of financial education. These dissimilar perspectives offer an opportunity for examining different social ideologies that may guide approaches to financial literacy and citizenship, along with the philosophies and principles that shape them. The principles that teach and inform about financial literacy define the premises for base personal and community responsibility.

The work invites researchers and practitioners to reconsider financial literacy/financial education and its social foundations. The book will appeal to a range of readers, including educators, policymakers, and practitioners in the field of financial literacy and citizenship education.

Weight: 456g
Dimension: 233 x 156 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032106632