Duane M. Giannangelo

Short Changed: The Importance of Facilitating Equitable Financial Education in Urban Society

Through this literature review, the authors explore financial education’s relevance to urban society. They consider research measuring children’s financial development by observing environmental influences that affect both financial learning and personal judgments. These conditions necessitate financial curricula addressing associated challenges. The authors recommend a cooperative rather than competitive financial education curriculum. Such a framework would employ student-centered instruction to create awareness of the societal consequences for financially based personal judgments related to financial differences.

Looking Forward into the Past.

This article concerns the interpretation of a semester-long email mentoring correspondence related to social studies teaching between the two authors. Analysis interpreted the mentee’s growth along O’Malley’s stages of professional reflection. The analysis found that the mentoring process fostered the mentee’s establishment of professional identity through a negotiation of individual goals within professional expectations. This experience informs the literature with regard to the promise it holds for professional training of teacher educators, its successes in building professional community, and the safety of this method for providing critical performance feedback.