ESCOLA DE CIVISMO E CIDADANIA: ETHOS DO COLÉGIO BETA DA POLÍCIA MILITAR DE GOIÁS

Abstract

The subject of this thesis is Beta School of Military Police of Goiás (CPMG), which slogan is Civism and Citizenship. The object of this research is Beta School, as a basic education unit that offers primary, secondary and high schools and it is run by the Military Police. This work aims to study Beta School of Military Police of Goiás and discusses the way civism and citizenship has a real expression for teachers and for the third year of high school students, considering the categories: democracy, bureaucracy, civism, citizenship and school management. There are three theoretical references used in this investigation. The first, the educational policies until these days, as well as the sorts of management models of Beta School based on the organization images of Costa’s school (1996,2009) and the constitutional principles of democratic management, based on Dewey (1959), Teixeira (1968), Bobbio (1986, 2006, 2007), Paro (2001, 2003), Ramos (1989), Gohn (1994), Pazeto; Wittmann (2001), Coutinho (2002), Barroso (2006), Sander (2007, 2009), Brzezinski (1987, 1996, 2007, 2008) and Castro (2009). The second reference consists on the reflections about the acting of private and public schools, based on the conceptions and critics of Cury (1986, 1992, 2002), Dourado (2006), Gracindo (2008) e Vieira (2008). The foundation and history of the Schools of Military Police of Goiás is the third one, which is centered on the interpretations of regulation, plans, projects and current educational polices. This is a quantity and quality research. The methodological procedures used were questionnaire with intentional samples of two third year groups of high school students from Beta School; documental and historical analyses, observation and interviews with third year teachers and two school managers. The results revealed that: a) the ambiguous identity of Beta School is linked by two State systems: the Education and Public Security Secretaries ; b) the institutional organization and school functioning; the structure, the infrastructure, the management and the community participation in its actions; the selective process, the vacancies by quotes, the entering by ruffle, the indication of managers without election, the real management differs from the ideal one; the charge of fees, the enrolment and the students´ permanence; c) the dynamics of Pedagogical Project, the full performance of the curriculum and the complement of cultural, arts, modern languages and sports contents; d) the daily experience of formative practices performed by the direction designated by the Military Command and also by the military and civil teachers. Concluding: it is a school institution seen by the students, parents and teachers as the best alternative in order to form those who seek the entrance to higher education. The formation is propaedeutic and there is no intention to integrate Professional formation. Beta School has its privileges as well as its own operational ordainments, supported by bureaucratic principals and it declares itself as a democratic school. It is catered to middle and working class people. It was verified that the excellence in teaching is not due to the institutional bond, or the selective entry exam process, or strict discipline, or the attendance to PMGO´s hierarchy. Instead, it is due to the teacher´s formation being according to the subject that they teach, as well as the formation of the pedagogical and didactic team, the support of the administrative and technical staff and the managers; the financial resources and the infrastructure are higher than the minimum standards defined by the State guidelines, and also the students are focused on their individual performance, aiming to overcome the obstacles in order to reach success.