Financial literacy and adult education
By: Karin Sprow Forte, Edward W. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Tisdell, editors
Series: New directions for adult and continuing education -- number 141; New directions for adult and continuing education -- no. 141.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781118850039; 9781118850114
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Financial literacy; Adult education
Description: Contributors present a series of chapters on topics that reveal the interrelatedness of the fields of adult education and financial literacy. They show how concepts and knowledge about adult education can be utilized in and illuminate financial education, and they offer insight about how financial education, as an eminently practical subject, shows adults learning and putting their new knowledge into action. --From publisher description.
Notes: "Spring 2014."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current copyright fee: GBP28.00 35\0.
Table of contents: title: Sociocultural issues in adult financial education  -- Karen Sprow Forte; title: Structural barriers, financial exclusion, and the possibilities of situated learning for financial education  -- Jerry Buckland; title: Contextual influences on financial behavior: a proposed model for adult financial literacy education  -- Wendy L. Way; title: Financial literacy education for women  -- Jodi Jarecke, Edward W. Taylor, Tahira K. Hira; title: Financial literacy: a critical adult education appraisal  -- Leona M. English; title: Economic inclusion and financial education in culturally diverse communities: leveraging cultural capital and whole-family learning  -- Barbara J. Robles; title: Raising employee engagement through workplace financial education  -- Lois A. Vitt; title: Measuring the impacts of financial literacy: challenges for community-based financial education  -- J. Michael Collins, Karen C. Holden; title: The role of emotions and assumptions in culturally responsive financial education practice in a capitalist economy -- Elizabeth J. Tisdell.