Educação financeira para crianças: estudo do segmento e das formas de implementação no Ensino Fundamental I

Abstract

The research in question is characterized as applied aiming to apply knowledge in a practical way and thus used bibliographical research, case study, field study and qualitative research to examine the financial education scenario in general, bringing contextualization and analysis, and also examining how this education is implemented in elementary school 1, presenting its limitations and proposals for improvements in the classroom, based on this, a test was applied with the aim of verifying the effectiveness in the classroom with children between 6 and 10 years old regarding this type of approach. The targets were to review relevant literary works, bringing weight to the research, and to develop and apply a financial teaching booklet for children in an interactive, didactic and playful way, gaining attention and developing students' interest in the subject. Data collection was through research in a private school, applying questionnaires, both to teachers from different classes and to the director of the institution, and observations during the application of the booklet developed for the work, valuable data were collected for the research. The findings revealed a strong correlation between the handbook applied and the data surveys obtained with the questionnaires with the need to have educational teaching about finances from the beginning of schooling and showed that this topic is not complicated to learn, and can bring greater future results for Brazilian society as a whole. In conclusion, this research highlights the importance of a dignified, isolated and prominent implementation of financial education for children, not just treating it as an extracurricular subject and without due depth.