Financial Literacy for Children and Youth


Table of Contents


Part I: Defining Financial Literacy
           Introduction

1.    A Case for Consumer Studies in the Early Grades
       Richard J. Chamberlin

2.    Buying More Can Give Children Less
       Carol Benson Holst

3.    The Importance of Financial Education Today
       Alan Greenspan

4.    Financial Literacy: Does it Matter?
       Lewis Mandell

5.    Meaning and Money
       Mary Ann Brenner

6.    What Teens Want to Know about Financial Management
       Karen Varcoe, Shirley Peterson, Connie Garrett, Allen Martin
       Paula Rene, Connie Costello

7.    Elementary Teachers' Views on Economic Issues
       Mark Schug

8.    Random Acts of Financial Literacy
       Kathleen S. Cooter

Part II: Instruction Issues
           Introduction

9.    Mathematics and Financial Literacy: Collaboration or Conflict?
       What are Mathematics Educators' Responsibilities?
       Sheryl A. Maxwell

10.    Improving Financial and Economic Education:
        A Program for Urban Schools
        Mark C. Schug, Robert L. Wynn II, Tracy J. Posnanski

11.    Financial Literacy and Youths in Jail
        Jaime Christensen

12.    Finance Faculty in the Middle School Classroom:
        Using a Portfolio Management Project to Integrate Teaching,
        Research, and Service
        Susan J. Crain, David R. Goodwin, Pamela Herd, Gay A. Ragan,
        Kent P. Ragan

13.    Teaching Young Dogs Old Tricks:
        The Effectiveness of Financial Literacy Intervention in Pre-High
        School Grades
        Lewis Mandell

14.    Teaching Financial Literacy through the Arts:
        Theoretical Underpinnings and Guidelines for Lesson Development
        James D. Laney

15.    Using a Financial Education Curriculum for Teens
        Karen P. Varcoe, Allen Martin, Zana Devitto, Charles Go

16.    Economic Inequality and Secondary Mathematics
        Andrew Brantlinger

Part III Socio-Historical Moral Connections
           Introduction

17.    Grasping the Foundational Roots of Economic Perceptions:
         Pre-Colonial West Africa and the Bantu
         Thomas A. Lucey, Darrell P. Kruger, Jeffrey M. Hawkins

18.    Human Rights Violations in the Inner City:
         Implications for Moral Educators
         Elizabeth Sparks

19.    The Determinants of Wealth and Asset Holding in
         Nineteen-Century Canada: Evidence from Microdata
         Livio Di Matteo

20.    Financial Responsibility for the Family:
         The Case of Southeast Asian Refugees in Canada
         Phyllis J. Johnson

21.    Who has a Bank Account? Exploring Changes Over Time, 1989-2001
         Jeanne M. Hogarth, Christoslav E. Anguelov, and Jinhook Lee

22.    Decomposing the Black-White Wealth Gap:
         The Role of Parental Resources, Inheritance, and Investment Dynamics
         Dalton Conley

23.    Variations in Level of Moral Judgment
         as a Function of Type of Dilemma and Moral Choice
         Jeremy I. M. Carpendale and Dennis L. Krebs

24.    Ethics and Economics, Friends or Foes? An Educational Debate
         Gerhard Minnameier

25.    Using Stories to Teach Complex Moral Concepts to Young Children
         Chiara Bacigalupa

26.    Understanding the Role of Community in Moral
         and Character Education
         F. Clark Power, Ann Marie R. Power, and Vladimir T. Khmelkov

27.    Economics, Religion, Spirituality, and Education:
         Encouraging Understandings of the Dimensions
         Thomas A. Lucey

Epilogue