Authors:
Nugraha Nugraha
;
Azizah Fauziyah
;
Dede Azis
and
Harpa Sugiharti
Affiliation:
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
Keyword(s):
Financial Literacy, Group Investigation Learning Method, Emotional Intelligence.
Abstract:
Financial literacy is a combination of awareness, skill, attitude, and behavior of a person in making a healthy financial decision and is able to reach a financial welfare of an individual, eventually. To embody that, an improvement in financial literacy is now more directed in the level of high school related to the decision to continue the education or entering a working world, so the students will be ready for life because they are already realized the financial risk from early time even though they are still not independent enough. A dedication to the people currently conducted is by giving a training to the teachers of the Economic subject in Bandung to improve the financial literacy of the students using a group investigation method based on the emotional intelligence that will be applied later to the learners of each school. The result of implementation shows that group investigation method is able to improve the student’s financial literacy more effectively compared to the di
scussion method. Therefore, the students with high emotional intelligence possess a higher financial literacy compared to the students with lower and medium scores. In an attempt to improve the student financial literacy, aside from the group investigation method, it is expected that the student owns an emotional intelligence with the intention of optimizing the financial planning and management independently. Based on the school of the study sample, High Schools in Bandung that equipped with the highest financial literacy and emotional intelligence is SMA N 16 Bandung.
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