Dr. Cat Ho: Critical Economic Literacy

What inherited economic assumptions does education quietly reproduce, even when it claims to be about justice?

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Cat Ho. Cat was trained as an economist but left the field early in search of work that could genuinely make the world better. That path first took her into a Christian non-profit, and later back into economics through teaching IB Diploma Programme Economics. Through her work with teachers and Gen Z learners, Cat became interested in how education can help people question inherited economic assumptions and imagine alternative possibilities. She is currently developing Critical Economic Literacy as a key dimension of Global Citizenship Education. She says that  the heart of her work is a simple but demanding question: what kind of education might actually help the world become a more just and peaceful place? We discuss:

🥥 Criticality as means of tearing down in order to build up;

🥥 How if we all spoke up, the possibility of change would be greater, though we still need networks and wisdom;

🥥 The creation of the precariat (that class of people afraid to lose the little it has) means we live on fear and don't always want to fight for change.

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Check out Cat's site WONDER: https://wonder-educationreimagined.org/critical-econ-literacy