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The Need for Economic Literacy for Students and Teachers: Insights from John Dewey
Author(s) -
Rogers John
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
analyses of social issues and public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.479
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1530-2415
pISSN - 1529-7489
DOI - 10.1111/asap.12050
Subject(s) - literacy , white (mutation) , inequality , great depression , psychology , white paper , sociology , depression (economics) , mathematics education , pedagogy , political science , economics , law , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , chemistry , mathematics , gene , macroeconomics
Despite growing attention to public opinion about economic inequality, there has been little research on how this topic should be addressed in a key site of civic development—elementary and secondary schools. This commentary builds on a recent ASAP article by White, Mistry, and Chow to explore what knowledge and understandings K‐12 students should acquire about the economy, and what this means for what teachers need to know. Looking to John Dewey's Depression‐era writing as a guide, I introduce the concept of economic literacy and describe how teachers and students can develop such literacy.