Uma proposta de curso de serviço para a disciplina matemática financeira: mediada pela produção de significados dos estudantes de administração

Abstract

This qualitative study investigated the production of meanings of the students of Business Administration in an Institution of Higher Education of Minas Gerais, for four months to draft a service course to the discipline of Financial Mathematics. Initially we postulated some ideas of what can be financial "thought", and we also presented a critical analysis of three books of financial mathematics. The field research was conducted concurrently with the lessons of discipline, through problem situations involving the use of the course design. For the reflectionof the liquid-modern society of consumers, we made use of the theoretical sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, describing on parasitic capitalism, the Code of Consumer Protection and the importance of developing a critical financial mathematics course. Afterwards, we concentrate on the readings of the transcripts in the light of the Model of Semantic Fields (MSF) by Romulo Campos Lins and proposed in the research of Silva (2003) and Kistemann Jr. (2011). Guided by this reading, we realized that financial mathematics discipline focused only on the content do not provide the students with opportunities to make their buying decisions and investment, with criticality. We consolidated the dissertation through an educational product, proposing guidelines for a travel service, covering the thematization of problem situations of consumption, exhibiting movies, the use of cartoons and comic strips.