A EDUCAÇÃO PARA O TRÂNSITO NO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL: Horizontes para uma cidadania no Estado neoliberal

Abstract

The neoliberal ideology try hard to mass-produce an education in which the contemporary ways of thinking be coherent with the capitalist mode of production. The citizenship that derives from this logic finds fundaments in the laws enunciated by Thomas Hobbes and in the thinking of John Locke. The hobbesian man is motivated by your passions and selfish desires, moved by your possessive individualism. This man, wolf of other man, whose actions has no social ends, and who lives in permanent state of war against all, has any correspondence with the vehicle’s driver of the urban agglomerates of the XXI century? The State modernizes its panoptic power taking advantage of new technologies, with the purpose of remain omniscient and omnipresent, and keep the individual in permanent surveillance. From the lockean theory derives the liberal thinking that imposes urgencies and artificials needs of consume to the driver. If the society’s extrinsic motivation is the immediate satisfaction of an private consume of the public space, the pacts of living together and the security recommendations are damaged. With the objective of deep theoretical studies that aim to justify the importance of being inserted contents of traffic education in the elementary school, aspiring to one formation that leads the child to be a responsible citizen in the society, in the roles of pedestrian, conductor and passenger, rises the problem: which are the limits and the possibilities for the insertion of the traffic education as curricular contents in the initial years of the elementary school, as opening of horizons for the citizenship in the neoliberal State? The theoretical basis uses references of the critical theory based on the historic-dialectic materialism, and consider the contributions of the post modern speech too. The bibliographic research investigates the neoliberalism as advanced stage of the capitalist mode of production, explores the correlation between traffic and citizenship in the context of the neoliberal State, describes the process of curriculum elaboration, characterizes the traditionals, criticals and post criticals curriculars theories, discuss some possibilities of teaching and learning of the theme traffic as curricular contents in the pedagogic practices of the initial years of the elementary school. It defends the thesis that the contemporary society, specially the parcel that comes from the privileged field of the education, don’t must remain omitted in relation of the traffic problems. It concludes that the denial of the reality relative to the area of traffic (antithesis) is an movement of overcoming, of constant fight, a search of alternatives, inside the dynamic process of evolution, whose results (synthesis) can be minimal, imperceptible or unforeseen, but that feed the bet on the ideal of progress, even if attenuated and unbalanced by the post modern speeches. It concludes too that as much the individualist conception of the public space as the conditions for the transposition of an “culture of the manly war” to an “culture of traffic safe” might constitute possibilities of teaching and learning of the theme traffic as curricular contents in the elementary school.