{"id":3797,"date":"2012-07-15T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T19:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2012-07-15T11:18:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T19:18:16","slug":"new-issue-of-critical-education-consumers-or-critical-citizens-financial-literacy-education-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2012\/07\/new-issue-of-critical-education-consumers-or-critical-citizens-financial-literacy-education-and-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"New issue of Critical Education: Consumers or Critical Citizens? Financial Literacy Education and Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticaleducation.org\">Critical Education<\/a><br \/>\nVol 3 No 6<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled\/article\/view\/182350\">http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled\/article\/view\/182350<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled\/article\/view\/182350\">Consumers or Critical Citizens? Financial Literacy Education and Freedom<\/a><br \/>\nChris Arthur<br \/>\n<em>Toronto District School Board<br \/>\nOntario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Given the recent and ongoing economic crisis and high levels of consumer debt, the teaching of financial literacy in elementary and secondary schools has received widespread support. Too often, however, financial literacy education policy documents promote the individualization of economic risk and privilege the autonomy of the consumer or consumer-citizen over that of the critical citizen. This article argues for the necessity of a critical financial literacy education aimed at supporting critical citizens by providing a Marxist critique of the dominant liberal and neoliberal notions of freedom and responsibility reproduced in financial literacy education policy documents. The choice highlighted here is not between financial illiteracy and financial literacy but between accommodating oneself to neoliberal capitalism\u2019s needs so as to remain in perpetual competition with others or understanding and collectively altering an economic system that promotes alienation, insecurity and exploitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Education Vol 3 No 6 http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled\/article\/view\/182350 Consumers or Critical Citizens? Financial Literacy Education and Freedom Chris Arthur Toronto District School Board Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Abstract Given the recent and ongoing economic crisis and high levels of consumer debt, the teaching of financial literacy in elementary and secondary schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,73154],"tags":[68,506311,4772,233,244745,2885,364],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","category-education-theory-research","tag-canada","tag-critical-citizenship","tag-critical-education","tag-education","tag-financial-literacy","tag-ontario","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3799,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}