Financial education in high school: an analysis of the works of the integrating projects of the PNLD 2021

Abstract

Compared to other countries, Brazil occupies a position much lower than expected with regard to financial care, given that Brazilians are increasingly indebted. In this aspect, school financial education becomes of great social relevance, contributing to the formation of financially aware and literate citizens. The Ministry of Education made the teaching of the subject mandatory in 2020 and, in 2022, public schools across the country have received the works of the National Didactic Book Program aimed at the New High School. This work has the objective of verifying what the contributions of the projects about Financial Education present in the didactic works of integrative projects of the program, for the financial literacy of the students. The research, of a qualitative nature, is characterized as bibliographical. Based on current research on the subject, we developed indicators for the analysis of didactic works, in order to verify whether the works contribute to financial learning. Of the fourteen works available, five were analyzed, as they contain projects involving financial themes. From the analysis of the works, it is observed that the most recurrent themes of the books were forms of monetary organization and financial planning. Of the five works analyzed, four of them fully addressed these issues in their development. Although not all projects contemplate the indicators constructed, it can be considered that, with the didactic works analyzed, the level of knowledge of the students will be high, since all projects contribute to the development of students' financial literacy.