Financial education to enhance planning skills among prisoners

Journal title PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA’
Author/s Paola Iannello, Angela Sorgente, Maura Crepaldi, Margherita Lanz
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/2 Language Italian
Pages 21 P. 123-143 File size 591 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSC2020-002008
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The current article describes a training in financial education, "Nulla osta per una progetta-zione consapevole", proposed to a prisoners population which, through an interactive method-ology and the use of a board game (Proj€tto), aims to increase prisoners’ awareness in plan-ning their future working activity, promoting the self-assessment and self-monitoring of the feasibility conditions of their own future project. The article also presents a synthetic descrip-tion of the first edition of this training in the male section of Prison of Bollate (Milan) and re-flections emerged from it.

Keywords: Prisoners; economic education; financial education; planning skills; Projetto; game.

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  • L'educazione finanziaria per potenziare le competenze di progettazione dei soggetti autori di reato Paola Iannello, Angela Sorgente, Maura Crepaldi, Margherita Lanz, in PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA' 2/2020 pp.123
    DOI: 10.3280/PSC2020-002008

Paola Iannello, Angela Sorgente, Maura Crepaldi, Margherita Lanz, L’educazione finanziaria per potenziare le competenze di progettazione dei soggetti autori di reato in "PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA’" 2/2020, pp 123-143, DOI: 10.3280/PSC2020-002008