(NAME-MCE) New Text on Financial Literacy and Social Issues

[Lucey, Tom]

Financial Literacy for Children and Youth, co-edited by Tom Lucey and Kathy Cooter (foreword by Beverly Cross), is available from Digital Textbooks.  The meanings, associated instruction issues, and socio-historical moral connections of financial literacy are examined in this new volume.  The text includes previously published and new scholarship, including classroom ideas. 
 
In particular, the pertinence of this work lies within its coverage of financial literacy for disadvantaged children and youth. Related topics concern the financial interests of youth from various cultural groups; methods to teach urban youth, including use of critical mathematics; efforts to teach incarcerated youth; and an interpretation of the financial divide between black-white populations.   
 
In her review of the text for the Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Nicole Chinadle (University of Arizona) observes that "Throughout the section (concerning socio-historical moral issues), the authors discuss challenges posed by discrimination, marginalization, and literacy that inhibit individuals' access to many financial resources, such as having an account with a depository institution or obtaining a loan for the purchase of an automobile or home." She concludes that "The framework for thinking about financial literacy that is so eloquently presented in this book may prove to be the tipping point that redirects how financial literacy programs are constructed." For more information, go to http://www.digitaltextbooks.biz <https://owa.ilstu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.digitaltextbooks.biz/>