Teaching Beliefs and Practices on Economic Literacy: A Relationship with Educational Social Skills
Teaching Beliefs and Practices. Economic Literacy. Educational Social Skills.
Studies of teaching beliefs and practices have broadened the understanding and attention to the fact that any and all teaching activities are primarily influenced by their thoughts, which therefore influence how teachers relate to their students and consequently in its development. Considering that a great part of human life involves the relation with the economic aspects and this being an important factor for the integral development of the learner, the school becomes the ideal scenario for the learning and formation of beliefs related to the financial world, and in that process the teacher assumes a fundamental role. In this sense, the present study has as general objective to analyze the beliefs and practices of elementary school teachers I about economic literacy and its relation with educational social skills. Specifically, we intend to investigate teachers' beliefs and practices about economic literacy, identify the repertoire of educational social skills and, finally, verify the relationships between them. The research will be conducted at a public school in the municipality of Santarém-Pará. Participants will be the teachers who work in the elementary school I of said school, with which the following instruments will be used: a) sociodemographic questionnaire; b) semi-structured interview script; c) inventory of educational social skills - IHSE - Prof (Del Prette; Del Prette) and d) direct observation script in the classroom. Data analysis will be performed using the Collective Subject Discourse (DSC) technique, developed by Lefèvre and Lefèvre (2003, 2005). Based on the theoretical presuppositions of psychology and education, which subsidize the discussions raised in this study regarding the constructs of economic literacy and social skills, with a greater emphasis on educational social skills, the theoretical apparatus will support research in the concretization of objectives, from which it is hoped to produce reflections on the relevance of studying beliefs in the educational field, understanding that these are fundamental in several aspects of the development of students, since it is understood that the school is responsible agent in the promotion of knowledge , attitudes and behaviors that aim at the effective insertion in society, so that the subjects have complete freedom to participate in public life in a conscious and active way.