8 The Québec Financial Education Program
A necessary change of perspective
Introduction
In Québec schools, the task of creating critical citizens falls to social studies. Their curricula include the majority of occurrences of the word citizen and its derivatives (citizens and citizenship) (Éthier & Lefrançois, 2018). Social studies are meant to teach students to inquire into social phenomena, to question them, to deconstruct and rationally weigh arguments about controversies, to debate them with tolerance (Ho et al., 2017), and to recognize human action as a determinant of history (Barton, 2012; Santisteban & Pagès, 2009). Learning to investigate within ...
