Lee Tak Yan, Law Ben M F
Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
ScientificWorldJournal. 2011;11:2287-98. doi: 10.1100/2011/650203. Epub 2011 Nov 20.
In view of the high impact of materialistic orientation among children and adolescents, financial educational programs are provided as preventive measures. Without a clear framework, it is impossible to evaluate these programs. The goals of this paper are threefold. Firstly, the phenomena related to adolescent materialistic orientation and its associated problems in Hong Kong are examined. Secondly, the concept of financial education as a preventive measure is reviewed. Both board and narrow definitions of money literacy are examined. A framework on money literacy for children and adolescents as a founding stone for financial education is proposed. The framework finds its support from a typology proposed by the authors and results from an integration of research findings on dimensions of the concepts of money and success. Finally, curriculum units for Grades 7 to 9 students in a positive youth development program (the Project P.A.T.H.S.) are developed using the framework.
鉴于物质主义取向对儿童和青少年的影响很大，因此提供金融教育项目作为预防措施。如果没有明确的框架，就无法评估这些项目。本文有三个目标。首先，研究香港青少年物质主义取向相关现象及其相关问题。其次，审视将金融教育作为预防措施的概念。研究了货币素养的广义和狭义定义。提出了一个作为金融教育基石的儿童和青少年货币素养框架。该框架得到了作者提出的一种类型学的支持，以及对货币和成功概念维度研究结果整合的支持。最后，使用该框架为一个积极青少年发展项目（成长的天空计划）中7至9年级的学生开发课程单元。
