Educação empreendedora e educação financeira escolar: desenvolvimento de comportamentos empreendedores em alunos do ensino médio

Abstract

This present work reports an inquiry in Mathematical Education, which combines knowledge of Entrepreneurial Education and Financial Education, aiming to develop and apply a teaching proposal that addresses Entrepreneurial Education, with School Financial Education support, through the use of digital educational resources for high school students, in order to enable them to identify, develop and practice entrepreneurial behaviors in execution a Social Entrepreneurship action that benefits the school community and its surroundings. The methodological approach used in the research is qualitative and appropriates the action-research strategy to associate actions with problem-solving, counting on the participation of the researcher. Between the actions developed, we highlight the Social Entrepreneurship project carried out during Mathematics classes with students of the 3rd year of high school at SESI School of Juiz de Fora, during eight weeks, April to June 2019. The project was divided into three stages: the first, intended to the diagnostic evaluation, which verified, through a questionnaire, the students' knowledge about the topics covered, the training and the identification of a Social Entrepreneurship action to be accomplished in school. The action chosen by the students was the acquisition of leisure items for the school community, which was developed in the second stage of the project. As a strategy to raise financial resources for their development, students held a bazaar at school. On the third stage, the students evaluated the project, the actions and the learning acquired by participating in it. It could be noticed that the participating students appropriated the knowledge about Entrepreneurship and Financial Education that were presented to them on the first stage, besides to develop entrepreneurial behaviors in carrying out the action, which resulted in the installation of three hammocks and the availability of a new Table Tennis table on school. This leads us to conclude that this research has supplied students to become aware that they can work with entrepreneurship to achieve their dreams and manage their personal finances, becoming protagonists of their lives and financially conscious citizens. As a result of this research, we realize that actions such as are capable of arousing entrepreneurship and promoting the development of entrepreneurial behavior, as well a financial and social awareness in students. In addition, the present study can be replicated in any grade of school. It also resulted in an educational product called “Social Entrepreneurship: a planning guide and teaching guidelines for the teacher”, in which we objectify to instrumentalize teachers for the development of classes that integrate Entrepreneurial Education and School Financial Education, resulting in Social Entrepreneurship actions.