Um estudo acerca da abordagem da educação financeira infantil em escolas do município de João Pessoa - PB

Abstract

The objective of This work is to analyze the level of financial education of elementary school children in some schools in the Banking and Castelo Branco districts of João Pessoa-PB. Using the questionnaire application, comprising two blocks A and B. Block A, verifies the level of understanding of the students in three institutions (a, B and C), being a private (a), a municipal (B) and a state, which were divided into two types , being a Type 1 questionnaire: With students from the 3rd and 4th grades of elementary School and type 2 questionnaire: With students from the 5th and 6th grade of elementary School. Block B is comprised of interviews conducted with The pedagogical coordinator of each institution. The research is exploratory and has a total sample of 266 questionnaires applied, being 114 applied with students of 3rd and 4th grade of elementary School and 152 with students of the 5th and 6th grade of elementary school, and interviews with pedagogical coordinators held in the month March 2019. From the analysis of the results, it was found that a great part of the students, from the schools analyzed have a notion of financial education, especially with regard to essential and superfluous goods, notion of products with high and low prices, comprise the shared and use of Piggy bank and are able to realize that, with difficulties, simple problems of mathematics, but it is perceived that, students from school A at levels 5 and 6 years, show better performance on questions that involve calculations in relation to schools B and C. However, about the concept of money, students need to improve the level of knowledge associated with financial education in schools A, B and C. . In addition, the interviews with the pedagogical coordinators generally claim that the subject is very complex and that it requires an improvement of the theoretical and practical contents with the teachers in order to give the subject in the classroom with more security. In this context, it is suggested the insertion of this practice from the infantile education in the schools to contribute in the formation of the future citizens.