Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Núbia dos Santos; LELLIS, Irani Lauer  and  BARILLAS, Maria Daniela Guzman. Teachers' beliefs about Economic Literacy: challenges and perspectives in the context of Early Childhood Education. Ensino em Re-Vista [online]. 2023, vol.30, e003.  Epub Aug 01, 2023. ISSN 1983-1730.  https://doi.org/10.14393/er-v30a2023-3.

Beliefs guide teaching practices, including in the context of economic literacy. This study aimed to understand the beliefs and practices of teachers working in early childhood education on economic literacy - AE, its acronym in Portuguese. Two teachers, who teach children between 4 and 5 years old at a Municipal Child Education Unit in Santarém - Pará, participated in the research. A semi-structured interview script was used and analyzed using the method of the Discourse of the Collective Subject - DCS. The results indicated an incipient knowledge about AE, because the beliefs expressed about AE were limited to common sense; practices limited to dialogue without intentional and systematized actions were evidenced. It was concluded that the insertion of the theme is necessary into the school curriculum; it is needed to invest in teacher training, in order that beliefs can be built for the mission of economic literacy, not only pertaining to the family, but that they assert the professional responsibility of an integrated curriculum, contributing to the integral development of children.

Keywords : Economic literacy; Education; Beliefs.

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