Contribuições de oficinas sobre Educação Financeira para Estudantes da Educação de Jovens e Adultos

Abstract

The contemporary world has demanded economic literacy from citizens that is not restricted to knowledge of simple or compound interest, but rather the adoption of healthy and stable financial behavior. Financial Education, as it has direct applicability in everyday situations, can contribute to making quick and coherent decisions, whether in corporate business or in calculating the profitability of a cash or installment purchase. Adopting these assumptions and realizing, empirically, the difficulty of some people in managing their finances and being, consequently, in debt for not using the bank credit system properly, the intervention and research presented in this article have the problem: What is the contribution of a sequence of workshops for the financial education of students in an EJA class? Based on the principles of Andragogy and the Theory of Didactic Situations, the intervention and research were carried out in a municipal public school, which has the Youth and Adult Education - EJA modality. To this end, five workshops were held, one every week, in a class of Total 5, which corresponds to the 8th year of Elementary School. It is considered that the workshops helped students understand that adequate management of monetary resources promotes a more balanced financial life, as the concepts relevant to Financial Education make it possible to identify factors that generally go unnoticed in everyday life, but which have a great impact economic.