Project-based learning in basic education: financial education and sustainability
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https://doi.org/10.14571/brajets.v17.n4.1471-1487Keywords:
Project Based Learning (PBL), Partnerships in Education, Mathematics Education, Problem-solving, SustainabilityAbstract
Education and training are the foundations of both society and the nation. Since 2017, the Portuguese national curriculum, aligned with international curricular trends, has prioritized education that emphasizes skill development. Education for Sustainable Development aims to promote the acquisition of skills that provide students with strategies to identify solutions to the challenges they face, simultaneously preparing them for integration into 21st-century society. In this article, we describe and analyse students' performance in the first cycle of basic education, focusing on their ability to apply knowledge of mathematics and financial education to solve problems related to an environmental project. This project was implemented through the active Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology in a collaborative work environment. Our goals were to i) understand how students acquire and apply problem-solving skills within the context of a sustainability project while simultaneously improving their financial literacy, examining the knowledge they apply and the skills they develop, and ii) evaluate the level of student engagement in collaborative problem-solving using the PBL methodology.
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