<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The level of economic thinking and financial culture of population should be considered one of the most important components of society’s economic life quality. Here, a key factor is economic and financial socialization of an individual, which can be achieved mainly by modelling appropriate training process technology to promote and ensure financial awareness at the early stages of training in high school and later on in colleges and universities. This paper focuses on one of the options of a unique subject matter (course) in Financial Education, for which testing started in 2008 and is successfully continuing in the Department of Business Management of Neri Bloomfield School of Design and Education (Haifa, Israel) against the backdrop of a multicultural environment. The study shows the dynamics of the formation of the main teaching methods of the new course. In parallel, we analysed the results of the final examinations of students to further adjust the content and pedagogy of the educational process. The results once again confirmed the urgent need to improve the financial literacy of students in accordance with the challenges of economics and culture in the twenty-first century.</p></abstract>

The level of economic thinking and financial culture of population should be considered one of the most important components of society’s economic life quality. Here, a key factor is economic and financial socialization of an individual, which can be achieved mainly by modelling appropriate training process technology to promote and ensure financial awareness at the early stages of training in high school and later on in colleges and universities. This paper focuses on one of the options of a unique subject matter (course) in Financial Education, for which testing started in 2008 and is successfully continuing in the Department of Business Management of Neri Bloomfield School of Design and Education (Haifa, Israel) against the backdrop of a multicultural environment. The study shows the dynamics of the formation of the main teaching methods of the new course. In parallel, we analysed the results of the final examinations of students to further adjust the content and pedagogy of the educational process. The results once again confirmed the urgent need to improve the financial literacy of students in accordance with the challenges of economics and culture in the twenty-first century.

Pedagogy of Financial Education among College Students

Neri Bloomfield School of Design and Education,

Economics and Culture

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The level of economic thinking and financial culture of population should be considered one of the most important components of society’s economic life...

Pedagogy of Financial Education among College Students

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 23 - 34

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jec-2016-0017

Keywords
Pedagogy of financial education, college students, multicultural environment in Israel

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Pedagogy of Financial Education among College Students

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 23 - 34

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jec-2016-0017

KeywordsPedagogy of financial education, college students, multicultural environment in Israel

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Pedagogy of financial education, college students, multicultural environment in Israel