A educação financeira na educação de jovens e adultos: uma leitura da produção de significados financeiro-econômicos de dois indivíduos-consumidores

Abstract

This research is the result of questions regarding financial and economic decision making of two individuals-consumers (a man and a woman) of adult and youth education (EJA), members of the net-modern consumer society. We based theoretically on the model of Semantic Fields of Romulo Campos Lins, Zygmunt Bauman on the issue of the consumption, in Maria da Conceição Ferreira Fonseca for the education of young people and Adults and Souza and Fonseca to the gender issue, to investigate how the two individuals-consumers of EJA financial-economic decisions take forward consumer situations, through the plausible reading of the meanings produced by them and in guided by question guideline: what two individuals-consumers of adult and youth education have to tell us about your actions and financial-economic decision making. Seeking the answer to the question guideline, we developed problem situations of financial-economic nature and interviews that were conducted with the two individuals-consumers. They revealed that the decision can be different for the same situation, which are closely related with the experience, financial and economic conditions and needs of the individual. Related to the gender, we see that some actions are considered own of woman or man´s, like buying a pink shirt for a man, for example, and there's still the preconceived notion that women spend more on superfluous things than men. The main objective of our research was to develop an Educational Product that could address some financial and economic situations that could make a material support to school teachers of Mathematics of adult and youth education, with regard to Financial Education theme.