O bancário educador: contribuições de uma proposta interdisciplinar para a educação financeira sustentável

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

05/09/2012

RESUMO

Can a bank employee become an educator? Based on the theory of interdisciplinarity, this research aims to demonstrate that the answer to that question is yes. Brazilian society is experiencing a period of strong credit exposure, although it has not matured culturally to deal with the currency s stability. The natural convergence between credit growth and the short-term culture is debt and, consequently, the loan default rate. Therefore, there is an urgent need to educate people regarding the proper use of money and credit. This is an economical environmental and social issue, because its impacts are derived directly from the way individuals define as they practice their spending habits. Thus, it is a question related to sustainability. By understanding the bank s role as the main financial agent of the society, therefore most responsible for contributing with its proper financial education, the main objective of this research was to investigate the contribution of an educational interdisciplinary action proposed to reframe the role of the bank employee to financial educator in the society. We tried to prove the hypothesis of the course Economy of Value, designed to develop employees of a bank to exercise the role of financial advisors, can be considered an educational interdisciplinary action. Then, we tried to verify if and how this action helps to reframe the role of the bank employee to financial educator. We performed a literature review on categories related to sustainability, financial education and interdisciplinarity, and a review of documents on the educational model of the financial institution surveyed. Next, we investigated the prescribed and lived curriculum in order to verify the presence of the principles of interdisciplinarity. Study subjects are participants of the course, questioned on two occasions about his perspective on the role of banking in society, assessing whether and how the course contributed to the expansion of their way of looking. The results obtained in the research have given rise to four stages of contribution of the course to broaden the participants gaze toward their role as financial educators

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interdisciplinaridade consumo consciente sustentabilidade conscious consumption interdisciplinarity sustainability curriculo financial education educação financeira

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