9“And I know the money don’t really make me whole”

Feminist financial literacy through Hip-Hop pedagogy

Neil Shanks and Delandrea Hall

DOI: 10.4324/9781003020264-10

Literature review

Critiquing status Quo notions of financial literacy

The Council for Economic Education (CEE) lists six standards that are “the scaffolding for a body of knowledge and skills that should be contained in a personal finance curriculum” (2013, p. v) in grades 4, 8, and 12. These standards are earning income, buying goods and services, saving, using credit, financial investing, and protecting and insuring (CEE, 2013). A curriculum built on these standards is designed to affect student behavior by encouraging them to make “informed choices” that lead to “greater satisfaction” ...

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