Educação financeira escolar: os riscos e as armadilhas presentes no comércio, na sociedade de consumidores

Abstract

The present research in School Financial Education and Mathematics Education had as objective to develop a set of tasks for the classroom of the High School with the finality of teaching about the risks and the traps presents in the commerce with the purpose of stimulating the consumption of the people, From traps intentionally put to the consumer. In this direction, our research problem was to investigate the production of a set of theoretically referenced tasks on the risks and pitfalls present in the trade, influencing the consumerism of the people in the consumer society. The research was characterized as having a qualitative character, in which we developed a field research. The tasks are theoretically based on the Semantic Fields Model, present in Lins (1999, 2008, 2012), by the conception of consumerism and consumer society proposed by the sociologist Zigmunt Bauman (2007, 2008) and by the proposal of School Financial Education present In Silva and Powell (2013). The set of tasks produced and the experience gained from the research and transformed into information for teaching activities, resulted in an educational product for the use of Basic Education teachers.