Financial Literacy Education

Abstract

This chapter presents the dominant consumerist view of financial literacy education produced in textual material from a variety of influential organizations: the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Canadian Federal government, the Investor Education Fund (IEF), Junior Achievement, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and the Ontario Provincial government. Given the focus is on financial and civic education in schools, this book leaves aside adult financial literacy education, a practice largely tied to credit counseling. Additionally, while civic education and empowerment require space and resources outside the school, this book focuses on financial literacy education within the school because the school is a site that is widely expected to create citizens who can renew and contribute to our democracy.