Educação financeira por novas perspectivas: uma análise em escolas confessionais cristãs

Abstract

This thesis approaches financial education from new perspectives, primarily highlighting the perspectives of teaching financial education in Christian confessional schools. It also seeks to discover new perspectives to overcome the financialization of financial education in school curricula. Through a qualitative approach, we executed bibliographical research for theoretical survey and field research in four Christian confessional schools in Paraná. The empirical analysis was executed by collecting data by means of questionnaires and interviews, which were carried out with the participation of coordinators of high school courses and financial education teachers working in the context of the new Brazillian high school curriculum. The thesis points to the complexity of the construction of knowledge, which occurs not only through modern science but by valuing social and culturally constructed knowledge through the epistemological approach of the Ecology of Knowledge, religious knowledge, especially the foundations of Christianity, inserted in confessional schools and their approaches based on the Christian worldview. We present the principled educational approach as a perspective to be observed, and among the principles it lists, the principle of Christian Stewardship stands out, which constitutes a perspective of overcoming the financialization of financial education in school curricula.