The Study on the Development of Financial Literacy Educational Program for College Students

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350041
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Home economics/Human life
• Research Institution: Yokohama National University
• Principal Investigator: NISHIMURA TAKAO 横浜国立大学, 教育人間科学部, 教授 (40242375)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAMATA Hiroko 北海道教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (60301959) ; KAKINO Shigemi 公益財団法人消費者教育支援センター, 総括主任研究員 (50648110)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 金融教育 / 金融リテラシー / パーソナルファイナンス / 消費者教育 / 大学教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have developed the curriculum of the financial literacy education for college students that they should learn through referring the results of the preceding foreign countries in financial literacy education. At the same time we really carried out two times of lectures of 15 classes of half terms and tried it by utilizing active learning method.
As a result, several changes were recognized for financial behavior of students by the survey after class. In addition, most of students took in the need and the effectiveness of this class.

Free Research Field

消費者教育