Abstract

NEMOS, Camila Labres; DURO, Mariana Lima  and  FOGLIARINI FILHA, Cláudia Brum de Oliveira. The financial education as a practice of individual financial autonomy in basic school. Educ. mat. [online]. 2021, vol.33, n.3, pp.172-201.  Epub May 30, 2022. ISSN 2448-8089.  https://doi.org/10.24844/em3303.07.

The objective of this article is to understand the importance of financial education as a liberating practice in the development of the financial autonomy of basic school students, based on the recommendations of the BNCC. It is known that the teaching of financial mathematics in schools has been treated as a programmatic content, distant from the reality of the student. On the other hand, financial education is broader, and have as a purpose to reflect on personal finances for the development of financial autonomy. In methodological terms, beyond the bibliographical research, the elaboration and execution of a financial education project, based on entrepreneurship, in a public school in Canoas/RS. To verify the learning generated by the activity, a semi-structured interview was conducted with the participants, before and after their application. The results indicated that the students developed a critical sense of their finances, understanding better the financial concepts and their importance. It could be concluded that financial education is effective and important for the development of financial literacy of the student, because showed to develop financial skills in the participants of this article.

Keywords : Financial education in school; Self entrepreneur; Common National Curriculum Base; Teaching and learning of mathematics; Project in a school..