EDUCAÇÃO FINANCEIRA E A ÁREA DE CONHECIMENTO DE ENSINO DE CIÊNCIA E MATEMÁTICA NO BRASIL: UM ESTUDO DE UM CONJUNTO DE TESES

Abstract

The present work is research developed within the great issues within Financial Education and Education in Sciences and Mathematics, starting from the following question: How does the investigative theme of Financial Education present itself in a set of Brazilian theses in the area of knowledge of Science and Mathematics Teaching in terms of its theoretical foundations? Thus, the research sought as its central goal to study a set of Brazilian theses on Financial Education developed in the field of Science Teaching and Mathematics Teaching seeking to understand how these specific studies present themselves regarding their theoretical foundations on the investigative theme of Financial Education. To this end, in an attempt to answer the research question and reach its proposed goal, six Brazilian theses on Financial Education developed in the area of knowledge of Science and Mathematics Teaching were examined, having such theses been selected from a systematic and predefined search in the Catalog of Theses and Dissertations of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). The work that is now presented, with the state of knowledge employed, is then intended to detail the bibliographic data of this set of theses, as well as to carry out a description of their important elements and, ultimately, to propose an analysis in the proposed terms.