e-Pedagogium 2018, 18(1):58-68 | DOI: 10.5507/epd.2018.006

Financial literacy as a Siren for Slovakia

Zuzana Danišková

Mgr. Zuzana Danišková, PhD., Katedra školskej pedagogiky, Pedagogická fakulta Trnavskej univerzity v Trnave, Priemyselná 4, P. O. BOX 9, 918 43 Trnava

Financial literacy has become a compulsory component of primary and secondary education through the National standard of financial literacy, with methodic helping teachers to expose topics in various subjects that are useful for the realization of its goals. From these efforts and a considerable amount of materials it could be concluded that FG gains more value than the sectional topics defined in state curriculum.
On one hand, it is a preventive fashion wave following the issues of capitalism, but also a tool for educating economically active entities in the spirit of current neoliberal trends. FG certainly has opponents whose voices are not very loud and, at the same time, perceived as strange in the eyes of the its proponents.
Regardless the side we take, we are trying to emphasize that the creators of the Slovak curriculum (primary education) are not able to reflect on existing experience (e.g. from neighboring Czech Republic), which proves that classes representing sociocognitive learning may be subject to topics, which meet the objectives of FG and their presence may not be artificial or redundant.
This model could not only enrich the inherited tradition of primary social studies but also to systematize this educational effort instead of pretending this is being implemented, as it is a common to think in Slovakia.

Keywords: financial literacy, neoliberalism, civic education, primary social studies

Published: March 1, 2018  Show citation