“Not Just Numbers”: Reimagining Financial Literacy Curriculum Through AsianCrit

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Abstract

This study examines financial literacy education in Ontario’s K–12 mathematics curriculum through the lens of a racialized Asian Canadian educator. Using a hybrid methodology that combines autoethnography and document analysis, it explores how dominant financial narratives in curriculum resources overlook cultural knowledge, obscure systemic inequities, and frame financial decision-making as individual responsibility. Grounded in Asian Critical Theory, the study draws on the author’s personal experiences navigating financial learning within formal schooling and a Korean immigrant household to critique the curriculum’s neutral tone and limited framing. It calls for a more culturally responsive and justice-oriented financial literacy—one that validates diverse ways of knowing and prepares students not just for individual success, but for collective well-being and liberation.

Author

• Jin A Jung, University of Toronto - OISE