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Do You Need 'The Machine'? Tipping in Canada Is Unconscious (Part I)
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Chernoff, Egan J. – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
Constantly on the lookout for Canadian mathematics education matters, I recently experienced a major personal tipping point. The juxtaposition of two different customer service situations was simply too much for me to handle. Now through the looking glass, it was abundantly clear that tipping in Canada is unconscious, and the evidence was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Money Management, Literacy
Do You Need the Machine? Tipping in Canada Is Unconscious (Part II)
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Chernoff, Egan J. – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
While recovering from a major personal tipping point (see Part I), I was still able to keep on the lookout for Canadian mathematics education matters. After all, if Canadian mathematics education matters, Canadian mathematics education matters. In doing so, I ran into a number of other financial problems. Everywhere I turned was a financial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Money Management, Financial Problems
Highlights of U.S. PISA 2018 Results Web Report (NCES 2020-166 and NCES 2020-072) [Combined Report]
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National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a study of 15-year-old students' performance in reading, mathematics, and science literacy conducted every 3 years. The PISA 2018 results provide a global view of U.S. students' performance compared to their peers in nearly 80 countries and education systems. By design, PISA aims to…
Descriptors: Money Management, Knowledge Level, Consumer Education, Achievement Tests
Health Learning and Adult Education: In Search of a Theory of Practice
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Schecter, Sandra R.; Lynch, Jacqueline – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2011
Fifty-five percent of Canadians aged 16 to 64 years lack the skills necessary to read and appropriately interpret health information in textual format. This critical review of research explores issues related to adults' health and health literacy learning in an effort to illuminate why this unacceptable condition persists. The authors also explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Literacy, Consumer Education
Financial Literacy in Ontario: Neoliberalism, Pierre Bourdieu and the Citizen
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Arthur, Chris – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2011
Utilizing concepts from Pierre Bourdieu I argue that the implementation of financial literacy education in Ontario public schools will, if uncontested, support a neoliberal consumer habitus (subjectivity) at the expense of the critical citizen. This internalization of the neoliberal ethos assists state efforts to shift responsibility for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Money Management, Knowledge Level, Consumer Education
A Multi-Theory Lens Analysis of Project Real World--A Canadian Consumer Education Curriculum.
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McGregor, Sue L. T.; ChirChir, Valentine; Couch, Rose; Jobolingo, Dorothy; Manyenga, Grace; Pothier, Michelle – Canadian Home Economics Journal, 1998
Analysis of a consumer education curriculum identified the extent to which modules reflected the perspectives of systems theory, life cycle model, economic exchange theory, and family member involvement model. Results showed that the curriculum assumes students live in nuclear families, neglects effect of consumer decisions on the environment, and…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Family (Sociological Unit), Foreign Countries