Financial Literacy and Academics: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Auteurs-es

  • Leona English Professor Adult Education St. Francis Xavier University

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.56105/cjsae.v25i1.462

Mots-clés :

adult education, discourse analysis, power, financial literacy

Résumé

Abstract: Using a critical discourse analysis (CDA), we explore the experience of adult education and business academics educating new parents for financial literacy. Informed by poststructuralism, CDA helps to examine the social relations of power operating in knowledge dissemination processes, especially as they affect adult educators, accountants, community partners, new parents, funding agencies, and government. We analyze our own engagement in this financial program, highlighting our complicities and resistances, especially the ways in which we wittingly and knowingly become academic lackeys for our government.

Biographie de l'auteur-e

Leona English, Professor Adult Education St. Francis Xavier University

Professor of Adult Education

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2012-11-30

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English, L. (2012). Financial Literacy and Academics: A Critical Discourse Analysis. La Revue Canadienne Pour l’étude De l’éducation Des Adultes, 25(1), 17–30. https://doi.org/10.56105/cjsae.v25i1.462