Developing financial and entrepreneurship skills in the Ouro Verde community, Manaus: an experience report from extension practice with students from La Salle Faculty

Abstract

Financial education has great relevance for individual growth, because, like other subjects taught at school, financial education disciplines people to make assertive decisions about their money, thus enabling a future and present strategic vision. Given the context presented, the general objective of the research is to carry out an experience report on extension practice with students from La Salle College related to developing financial and entrepreneurship skills in the Ouro Verde community, Manaus. Project that raised the families’ cash flow balance. In-person expository classes, applying interactive learning methods. Where participants obtained material available via PDF so that participants could have access to the theoretical framework. It should be noted that the students were organized into six groups that dealt with: (group 1) financial well-being; (group 2) organization and planning; (group 3) credit and debt; (group 4) future and succession planning and asset and family protection; (group 5) and entrepreneurship. This extension practice presented students with a great opportunity to put into practice the concepts taught at college. So it was very noticeable that they had a much greater sense of the content taught in the classroom, and seen in other subjects, in addition to the personal experiences they already had, and basically began to understand this content more, when they started to apply and teach it. through the workshop.