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The Financial Literacy Delusion
Public SeminarOnline
URL: https://publicseminar.org/essays/the-financial-literacy-delusion/
Biography
Agata Soroko is a PhD candidate and a part-time professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. From 2016-2019, Soroko held the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) to conduct her doctoral research on teachers' critical approaches to teaching financial literacy. She was a McPherson Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education (UW-Madison) and worked on The Inequality Project, a mixed-methods collaborative study between the University of Ottawa and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) investigating what high schools teach students about rising economic inequality. Before her academic career, Soroko was a secondary school teacher and an education assistant.