Educação financeira e consumo consciente : uma proposta interdisciplinar

Abstract

In this research we describe how financial education, from the perspective of conscious consumption, can be developed through a didactic sequence, with an interdisciplinary approach, aimed at students in the year 6th of Elementary School. The guiding question of our research was to understand how working with financial education from the perspective of conscious consumption in an Elementary School class can contribute to articulating different skills and knowledge in teaching mathematics in an interdisciplinary way. We base our discussions on different authors, mainly Paulo Freire and Ole Skovsmose, approaching critical and awareness-raising mathematics as a form of social transformation. Not with regard to the methodological approach, our research was designed as qualitative. The research subjects were students in the year 6th of Elementary School at a state school in the city of Porto dos Gaúchos/MT. We used circles conversation, questionnaires, field notebooks and participant observation as production and data collection instruments. Our educational product consists of two elements: a textbook for students nd a Support Material for Teachers who wish to address financial education in their elementary school classes. The data obtained from the development of the research was developed and the results are presented in a way that corroborates the studies carried out throughout the process in an attempt to actively engage students in the teaching and learning process. Experience has shown us that it is possible to develop skills from different curricular components with students in order to provide moments of reflection on conscious attitudes in relation to the consumption of products and the exploitation of natural resources. The students studied to understand the aspects that involve conscious consumption and the importance of changing attitudes in the face of social, economic and environmental challenges caused by the imbalance of unrestrained consumption.