Educar financeiramente em situações a-didáticas no município de São João de Meriti/RJ: algumas possibilidades

Abstract

This study aims to investigate whether the students act positively and consciously, in everyday situations related to personal finances, following therefore the line of a research focused on Financial Education. To carry out this investigation, the students were faced with activities of direct nature, reflective and investigative, with bias in mathematical techniques. The research methodology followed the theoretical assumptions of Didactic Engineering and the theoretical foundations were subsidized in the theory of Didactic Situations, in particular, a-didactic situations. Students of the third year of high school, a public school in São João de Meriti Rio de Janeiro, are the aim of this research. From this perspective, and because it is a Professional Master`s Degree, the Educational Product is expressed as a teaching material in the form of a booklet, which features everyday situations of a family, entitled The Dezmedida Family. At the end of each chapter, this booklet offers ten problems that happen in everyday life of a family, and the reader should solve them, using their knowledge of financial education. Furthermore, the booklet will also show complementary activities coming from the dissertation.