Episode 199: Critical Economic Literacy Education with Agata Soroko

In episode 199, Dan and Michael chat with Agata Soroko about her article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Teaching young people more than “how to survive austerity”: From traditional financial literacy to critical economic literacy education.”

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Books, Articles and Other Amazing Resources

  1. Soroko, A. (2023). Teaching young people more than “how to survive austerity”: From traditional financial literacy to critical economic literacy education. Theory & Research in Social Education, 51(1), 128-156.
  2. Episode 132: Feminist Economics in Social Studies with Neil Shanks
  3. Episode 92: Teaching Against Misinformation with Erica Hodgin & Joe Kahne
  4. Hamilton, D., & Darity, W. A. (2017). The political economy of education, financial literacy, and the racial wealth gap. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 99(1), 59–76. https://doi.org/10.20955/r.2017.59-76
  5. Arthur, C. (2011). Financial literacy in Ontario: Neoliberalism, Pierre Bourdieu and the citizen. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 9(1), 188–222.
  6. Clarke, C. (2015). Learning to fail: Resilience and the empty promise of financial literacy education. Consumption Markets & Culture, 18(3), 257–276. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253866.2014.1000315

Other recommended readings: 

  1. Blue, L. E., & Pinto, L. E. (2017). Other ways of being: Challenging dominant financial literacy discourses in Aboriginal context. The Australian Educational Researcher, 44(1), 55–70.
  2. Spotton Visano, B., & Ek-Udofia, I. (2017). Inclusive financial literacy education for inspiring a critical financial consciousness: An experiment in partnership with marginalised youth. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 21(7), 763–774. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2016.1252430
  3. Pinto, L. E., & Coulson, E. (2011). Social justice and the gender politics of financial literacy education. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 9(2), 54–85.
  4. Lucey, T. A. (Ed.). (2022). Financialization, financial literacy, and social education. Routledge.
  5. Check our Dr. Soroko’s professional site for more: https://agatasoroko.com/

Biography

Agata Soroko is a postdoctoral scholar with the Civic Engagement Research Group (CERG) in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on critical social studies and civic education as well as the social contexts of educational policy, politics, and practice. 

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