Thomas A Lucey
Biographic Data
| ID | 5429246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas A Lucey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lucey |
| SIGNATURE | LUCEY T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2743-6141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Seeking the masculine with the feminine
As democracies have deteriorated worldwide, understanding preservice teachers’ perceptions regarding teaching about the 2020 US presidential election helps teacher educators better guide them to make informed and intentional pedagogical decisions for democratic education. Through a survey study, we found that early childhood and elementary preservice social studies teachers did not express a strong degree of comfort teaching about the presidentia…
Matters of Perception
This Issue in Education Sciences publishes select responses to a call for papers concerning groundings for knowledge that inform education [...]
The doors they choose
We consider the extent that elementary preservice teachers enrolled in a social studies methods course expressed empathy for story characters when solving the story’s emotionally ladened problem. We believe that the manner by which these students resolved one character’s dilemma informs about the nature of their own emotions. Participants read Frank Stockton’s story, “The Lady and the Tiger” toward the beginning and at the conclusion of the semes…
Toward critically compassionate financial literacy
This study examined preservice teachers’ agreement with critically compassionate financial literacy standards and the financial literacy standards developed by The Council for Economic Education for Grade 4. The preservice teachers, enrolled in elementary social studies methods courses at two institutions, responded to surveys about their agreement with traditional and compassionate standards for financial literacy before and after a visual, audi…
Teachers’ Interpretation of the Cultural Relevancy of MoneySKILL ®
A comprehensive approach to financial literacy education necessitates an understanding of the degree to which curriculum is relevant for students from various cultural backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to examine the cultural relevancy of MoneySKILL ® , an online financial literacy program designed for high school students. A convenience sample of teachers enrolled in a graduate course on student diversity completed 12 MoneySKILL modules…
Ghosts in the machine
Through this paper, the authors describe the challenge of interpreting and teaching digital citizenship in the classroom. They present digital citizenship as a concept that features a range of applications influenced by teacher and student traits. They begin with an explaination of the advent of digital/screen technology, and describe it as a corporately sanctioned addictive presence. They review the concepts of, Spirituality and digital citizens…
Examining a measure of spiritual capital
The purpose of this article is to examine an instrument designed to measure an individual’s spiritual capital. Spiritual capital represents a relatively new concept that relates to one’s relationship to financial resources such that he or she exhibits dispositions and behaviors toward justice-oriented environments. This study served to interpret the factor structure of Rima’s measure, consider differences in spiritual capital levels based on stud…
Grabbing a Tiger by the Tale
Teaching financial literacy represents an important expectation of K–12 public school educators. Financial literacy is usually defined as having the knowledge and ability to function monetarily within the existing economic system. This system can be hierarchical and inequitable, if not oppressive. We argue that stories have been used throughout history to inform people about the fulfillment of challenging the social structures founded on traditio…
Teaching teachers about retirement and investments
The authors describe a project that compared the effects of three interventions on the retirement investment knowledge of public school teachers in the Midwest. They interpret outcomes from three different interventions (online training, site-based workshop, and hybrid of online and site-based). While the study results indicate that program participants increased their investment and retirement knowledge of content presented in the measured appro…
Elementary Preservice Teachers’ and Teacher Educators’ Perceptions of Financial Literacy Education
The authors conducted an online survey of elementary teacher education programs within a large midwestern state to assess preservice teachers’ and teacher educators’ beliefs about and preparedness to teach financial literacy. Very few preservice teachers had meaningful experiences with personal finance in high school, college, or personal decision making. No teacher educators reported ever teaching financial literacy in their higher education rol…
Looking forward into the past
This article concerns the interpretation of a semester-long email mentoring correspondence related to social studies teaching between the two authors. Analysis interpreted the mentee’s growth along O’Malley’s stages of professional reflection. The analysis found that the mentoring process fostered the mentee’s establishment of professional identity through a negotiation of individual goals within professional expectations. This experience informs…
Comparing Teacher Education and Finance Majors' Agreement with Financial Morality Topics
This article describes findings from a research survey that measured agreement with items that concerned financial morality. The authors analyzed the responses of 382 teacher education majors and finance majors at a Midwestern institution of higher learning in the USA. The study found highest agreement with items measuring business responsibilities, and lowest agreement with items related to wealth distribution. It noted significant differences a…
Patterns of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Middle-Level Social Studies Teaching
Using data from a national social studies survey, the authors examined instructional trends among Illinois elementary and middle school social studies teachers. The authors found that teachers preferred whole-group and teacher-centered instructional strategies over more active, student-centered methods. While surveyed teachers predominately indicated that one of the primary goals of teaching social studies was to improve critical-thinking ability…
Dimensions of Citizenship through the Lens of The Hunger Games
The authors take an interdisciplinary approach to frame current conceptions of citizenship and practices of citizenship education. Using the popular young adult novel The Hunger Games (Collins 2008) as a basis for learning, they discuss theories of teaching and learning about citizenship through multiliteracies and art to explore the challenges associated with teaching citizenship as a complex, multidimensioned construct. They also describe the b…
Conceptually and Developmentally Appropriate Education for Financially Literate Global Citizens
This themed issue of Citizenship, Social, and Economics Education comes at a critical time for a globally aware society. The twenty-first century witnesses a climate where prosperity and poverty co-exist as highly extreme conditions. Research by Richard Wilkinson and Kat Pickett (2009) describes correlational relationships between the degrees of financial disparities among countries and among states and the magnitude of various social ills. Their…
Understandings of Retirement Concepts among Pre-Service Teachers
The purpose of this study was to interpret the retirement understandings and planning dispositions among the population of preservice teachers at a Midwestern institution of higher learning. Teacher education majors were surveyed about their knowledge of retirement topics and their attitudes towards retirement funding. There were approximately 4400 prospects, of which 303 responded and 211 completed all survey items. Respondents indicated that th…
Influences on Teacher Education Majors' Interpretations of Financial Morality
This article argues that narrow interpretations of financial literacy lack a valued moral component. Reviewing literature that defines financial literacy, morality, and financial morality, the authors present the results of a study that interpreted patterns of influence on agreement with financial morality. The study involved education majors at a public Midwest institution for higher learning. There were approximately 270 respondents. The study …
In Search of Understandings
This article concerns the results of an online survey that interpreted understandings of United States history, up to 1877, among early childhood, elementary, and middle level preservice teachers from three institutions in the United States. In literature, the authors observe associations between teaching methods and teacher conceptions of curricular content and that these relationships hold particular relevance to social studies (history) teachi…
This Land Was Made for You and Me
Teaching for economic justice can be challenging for upper elementary and middle school teachers. Many teachers may feel uncomfortable with the subject matter and thus avoid addressing sensitive social issues related to economic/financial inequities. This article describes how selected songs and works of visual art, expressions of social protest and social commentary from past and present, can be used appropriately as starting points for introduc…
Interpreting School Authority Structures in Public Education
We provide an interpretation of authority in schools among a convenience sample teacher candidates. We analyzed responses of a convenience sample of thirty-one undergraduate interns enrolled in two cohorts of block methods courses at a southern urban university. Approximately four of five students consented to have their reflections analyzed. The process considered candidates' reflections about a prompt concerning school authority and conditions …
Influences Interpreting a Technology Component to Financial Education for Grades K-4
The authors recognize that educators must consider the nature and consequences of technology's use in financial education. Pointing out that both technological presence and instructional methodology represent determinants of pedagogical appropriateness, the authors describe a study measuring whether socioeconomic elements influence educators' agreement with technology uses for financial education in grades K-4. While they find that settings (e.g.…
Short Changed
Through this literature review, the authors explore financial education’s relevance to urban society. They consider research measuring children’s financial development by observing environmental influences that affect both financial learning and personal judgments. These conditions necessitate financial curricula addressing associated challenges. The authors recommend a cooperative rather than competitive financial education curriculum. Such a fr…
Short Changed
Through this literature review, the authors explore financial education’s relevance to urban society. They consider research measuring children’s financial development by observing environmental influences that affect both financial learning and personal judgments. These conditions necessitate financial curricula addressing associated challenges. The authors recommend a cooperative rather than competitive financial education curriculum. Such a fr…
Elementary Preservice Teachers’ and Teacher Educators’ Perceptions of Financial Literacy Education
The authors conducted an online survey of elementary teacher education programs within a large midwestern state to assess preservice teachers’ and teacher educators’ beliefs about and preparedness to teach financial literacy. Very few preservice teachers had meaningful experiences with personal finance in high school, college, or personal decision making. No teacher educators reported ever teaching financial literacy in their higher education rol…
Patterns of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Middle-Level Social Studies Teaching
Using data from a national social studies survey, the authors examined instructional trends among Illinois elementary and middle school social studies teachers. The authors found that teachers preferred whole-group and teacher-centered instructional strategies over more active, student-centered methods. While surveyed teachers predominately indicated that one of the primary goals of teaching social studies was to improve critical-thinking ability…
This Land Was Made for You and Me
Teaching for economic justice can be challenging for upper elementary and middle school teachers. Many teachers may feel uncomfortable with the subject matter and thus avoid addressing sensitive social issues related to economic/financial inequities. This article describes how selected songs and works of visual art, expressions of social protest and social commentary from past and present, can be used appropriately as starting points for introduc…
Toward critically compassionate financial literacy
This study examined preservice teachers’ agreement with critically compassionate financial literacy standards and the financial literacy standards developed by The Council for Economic Education for Grade 4. The preservice teachers, enrolled in elementary social studies methods courses at two institutions, responded to surveys about their agreement with traditional and compassionate standards for financial literacy before and after a visual, audi…
Teachers’ Interpretation of the Cultural Relevancy of MoneySKILL ®
A comprehensive approach to financial literacy education necessitates an understanding of the degree to which curriculum is relevant for students from various cultural backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to examine the cultural relevancy of MoneySKILL ® , an online financial literacy program designed for high school students. A convenience sample of teachers enrolled in a graduate course on student diversity completed 12 MoneySKILL modules…
Dimensions of Citizenship through the Lens of The Hunger Games
The authors take an interdisciplinary approach to frame current conceptions of citizenship and practices of citizenship education. Using the popular young adult novel The Hunger Games (Collins 2008) as a basis for learning, they discuss theories of teaching and learning about citizenship through multiliteracies and art to explore the challenges associated with teaching citizenship as a complex, multidimensioned construct. They also describe the b…
Conceptually and Developmentally Appropriate Education for Financially Literate Global Citizens
This themed issue of Citizenship, Social, and Economics Education comes at a critical time for a globally aware society. The twenty-first century witnesses a climate where prosperity and poverty co-exist as highly extreme conditions. Research by Richard Wilkinson and Kat Pickett (2009) describes correlational relationships between the degrees of financial disparities among countries and among states and the magnitude of various social ills. Their…
Influences on Teacher Education Majors' Interpretations of Financial Morality
This article argues that narrow interpretations of financial literacy lack a valued moral component. Reviewing literature that defines financial literacy, morality, and financial morality, the authors present the results of a study that interpreted patterns of influence on agreement with financial morality. The study involved education majors at a public Midwest institution for higher learning. There were approximately 270 respondents. The study …
Influences Interpreting a Technology Component to Financial Education for Grades K-4
The authors recognize that educators must consider the nature and consequences of technology's use in financial education. Pointing out that both technological presence and instructional methodology represent determinants of pedagogical appropriateness, the authors describe a study measuring whether socioeconomic elements influence educators' agreement with technology uses for financial education in grades K-4. While they find that settings (e.g.…
Short Changed
Through this literature review, the authors explore financial education’s relevance to urban society. They consider research measuring children’s financial development by observing environmental influences that affect both financial learning and personal judgments. These conditions necessitate financial curricula addressing associated challenges. The authors recommend a cooperative rather than competitive financial education curriculum. Such a fr…
Influences Interpreting a Technology Component to Financial Education for Grades K-4
The authors recognize that educators must consider the nature and consequences of technology's use in financial education. Pointing out that both technological presence and instructional methodology represent determinants of pedagogical appropriateness, the authors describe a study measuring whether socioeconomic elements influence educators' agreement with technology uses for financial education in grades K-4. While they find that settings (e.g.…
Interpreting School Authority Structures in Public Education
We provide an interpretation of authority in schools among a convenience sample teacher candidates. We analyzed responses of a convenience sample of thirty-one undergraduate interns enrolled in two cohorts of block methods courses at a southern urban university. Approximately four of five students consented to have their reflections analyzed. The process considered candidates' reflections about a prompt concerning school authority and conditions …
This Land Was Made for You and Me
Teaching for economic justice can be challenging for upper elementary and middle school teachers. Many teachers may feel uncomfortable with the subject matter and thus avoid addressing sensitive social issues related to economic/financial inequities. This article describes how selected songs and works of visual art, expressions of social protest and social commentary from past and present, can be used appropriately as starting points for introduc…
Influences on Teacher Education Majors' Interpretations of Financial Morality
This article argues that narrow interpretations of financial literacy lack a valued moral component. Reviewing literature that defines financial literacy, morality, and financial morality, the authors present the results of a study that interpreted patterns of influence on agreement with financial morality. The study involved education majors at a public Midwest institution for higher learning. There were approximately 270 respondents. The study …
In Search of Understandings
This article concerns the results of an online survey that interpreted understandings of United States history, up to 1877, among early childhood, elementary, and middle level preservice teachers from three institutions in the United States. In literature, the authors observe associations between teaching methods and teacher conceptions of curricular content and that these relationships hold particular relevance to social studies (history) teachi…
Understandings of Retirement Concepts among Pre-Service Teachers
The purpose of this study was to interpret the retirement understandings and planning dispositions among the population of preservice teachers at a Midwestern institution of higher learning. Teacher education majors were surveyed about their knowledge of retirement topics and their attitudes towards retirement funding. There were approximately 4400 prospects, of which 303 responded and 211 completed all survey items. Respondents indicated that th…
Conceptually and Developmentally Appropriate Education for Financially Literate Global Citizens
This themed issue of Citizenship, Social, and Economics Education comes at a critical time for a globally aware society. The twenty-first century witnesses a climate where prosperity and poverty co-exist as highly extreme conditions. Research by Richard Wilkinson and Kat Pickett (2009) describes correlational relationships between the degrees of financial disparities among countries and among states and the magnitude of various social ills. Their…
Dimensions of Citizenship through the Lens of The Hunger Games
The authors take an interdisciplinary approach to frame current conceptions of citizenship and practices of citizenship education. Using the popular young adult novel The Hunger Games (Collins 2008) as a basis for learning, they discuss theories of teaching and learning about citizenship through multiliteracies and art to explore the challenges associated with teaching citizenship as a complex, multidimensioned construct. They also describe the b…
Comparing Teacher Education and Finance Majors' Agreement with Financial Morality Topics
This article describes findings from a research survey that measured agreement with items that concerned financial morality. The authors analyzed the responses of 382 teacher education majors and finance majors at a Midwestern institution of higher learning in the USA. The study found highest agreement with items measuring business responsibilities, and lowest agreement with items related to wealth distribution. It noted significant differences a…
Patterns of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Middle-Level Social Studies Teaching
Using data from a national social studies survey, the authors examined instructional trends among Illinois elementary and middle school social studies teachers. The authors found that teachers preferred whole-group and teacher-centered instructional strategies over more active, student-centered methods. While surveyed teachers predominately indicated that one of the primary goals of teaching social studies was to improve critical-thinking ability…
Looking forward into the past
This article concerns the interpretation of a semester-long email mentoring correspondence related to social studies teaching between the two authors. Analysis interpreted the mentee’s growth along O’Malley’s stages of professional reflection. The analysis found that the mentoring process fostered the mentee’s establishment of professional identity through a negotiation of individual goals within professional expectations. This experience informs…
Teaching teachers about retirement and investments
The authors describe a project that compared the effects of three interventions on the retirement investment knowledge of public school teachers in the Midwest. They interpret outcomes from three different interventions (online training, site-based workshop, and hybrid of online and site-based). While the study results indicate that program participants increased their investment and retirement knowledge of content presented in the measured appro…
Elementary Preservice Teachers’ and Teacher Educators’ Perceptions of Financial Literacy Education
The authors conducted an online survey of elementary teacher education programs within a large midwestern state to assess preservice teachers’ and teacher educators’ beliefs about and preparedness to teach financial literacy. Very few preservice teachers had meaningful experiences with personal finance in high school, college, or personal decision making. No teacher educators reported ever teaching financial literacy in their higher education rol…
Examining a measure of spiritual capital
The purpose of this article is to examine an instrument designed to measure an individual’s spiritual capital. Spiritual capital represents a relatively new concept that relates to one’s relationship to financial resources such that he or she exhibits dispositions and behaviors toward justice-oriented environments. This study served to interpret the factor structure of Rima’s measure, consider differences in spiritual capital levels based on stud…
Grabbing a Tiger by the Tale
Teaching financial literacy represents an important expectation of K–12 public school educators. Financial literacy is usually defined as having the knowledge and ability to function monetarily within the existing economic system. This system can be hierarchical and inequitable, if not oppressive. We argue that stories have been used throughout history to inform people about the fulfillment of challenging the social structures founded on traditio…
Ghosts in the machine
Through this paper, the authors describe the challenge of interpreting and teaching digital citizenship in the classroom. They present digital citizenship as a concept that features a range of applications influenced by teacher and student traits. They begin with an explaination of the advent of digital/screen technology, and describe it as a corporately sanctioned addictive presence. They review the concepts of, Spirituality and digital citizens…
The doors they choose
We consider the extent that elementary preservice teachers enrolled in a social studies methods course expressed empathy for story characters when solving the story’s emotionally ladened problem. We believe that the manner by which these students resolved one character’s dilemma informs about the nature of their own emotions. Participants read Frank Stockton’s story, “The Lady and the Tiger” toward the beginning and at the conclusion of the semes…
Toward critically compassionate financial literacy
This study examined preservice teachers’ agreement with critically compassionate financial literacy standards and the financial literacy standards developed by The Council for Economic Education for Grade 4. The preservice teachers, enrolled in elementary social studies methods courses at two institutions, responded to surveys about their agreement with traditional and compassionate standards for financial literacy before and after a visual, audi…
Teachers’ Interpretation of the Cultural Relevancy of MoneySKILL ®
A comprehensive approach to financial literacy education necessitates an understanding of the degree to which curriculum is relevant for students from various cultural backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to examine the cultural relevancy of MoneySKILL ® , an online financial literacy program designed for high school students. A convenience sample of teachers enrolled in a graduate course on student diversity completed 12 MoneySKILL modules…
Matters of Perception
This Issue in Education Sciences publishes select responses to a call for papers concerning groundings for knowledge that inform education [...]
Seeking the masculine with the feminine
As democracies have deteriorated worldwide, understanding preservice teachers’ perceptions regarding teaching about the 2020 US presidential election helps teacher educators better guide them to make informed and intentional pedagogical decisions for democratic education. Through a survey study, we found that early childhood and elementary preservice social studies teachers did not express a strong degree of comfort teaching about the presidentia…
Psychology (21 works) · Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Mathematics education (13 works) · Pedagogy (13 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (8 works) · Finance (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Financial literacy (7 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (7 works)