Financial Literacy of University Students and Comparison with Chosen Countries in the Context of Increasing the Skills of Pupils

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2017.2378" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2017.2378</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2017.2378" target="_blank" >10.21125/edulearn.2017.2378</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Financial Literacy of University Students and Comparison with Chosen Countries in the Context of Increasing the Skills of Pupils

Original language description

In the real world, where the pursuing of success and the money is the most valuable goal not only by corporations but almost all individuals, the understanding of financial context is very important. This topic is the cornerstone of financial literacy as a one of the individual skills. The article is aimed at the comparison of the situation among the general population in the financial literacy according to official statistical data. The focus in this part of the analysis is to identify if there is any connection between the financial literacy of the general population of the chosen counties and the economic level of those countries. As the next part of the analysis there are presented data of our own questionnaire survey among the students of faculty of education and the comparison of the results with the national level of financial literacy. Both parts of the article thus mutually corresponds and moreover their results are used to formulate the conclusion for the increasing the skills of pupils. The pupils are the most suitable focus group for application of any enhancing educational projects in the topic of financial literacy because this topic should be one of the basic knowledge for real life. Education process of financial literacy should start as soon as possible as the preparatory process and not only as the process of elimination of consequences.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

9th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies

ISBN

9788469737774

ISSN

2340-1117

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

6083-6090

Publisher name

IATED Academy

Place of publication

Spain

Event location

Barcelona, Spain

Event date

Jan 1, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000493048101026