A EDUCAÇÃO PARA A CIDADANIA E A MILITARIZAÇÃO PARA A EDUCAÇÃO

Abstract

Research Line "State, Policies and Educational Institutions", of the Postgraduate Program in Education, Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, expressed as the interest of this study an analysis and understanding of the education system of the military state colleges of Goiás, institutions that proclaim democratic management to form citizens who are active in the emancipatory process, but whose documents and praxis reveal a centralizing, disciplinary and hierarchical management. General objective of the research: to identify if the disciplinary and hierarchical teaching of the CEPMG contributes to the formation of participatory, reflexive and autonomous citizens, or subservient citizens, who contribute to the naturalization of social differences. The specific objectives are to analyze and understand: a) what sense of citizenship is present in the CEPMG training project; b) in which model of society its students are being formed; c) what are the social implications of the training project proposed by them. Problem: analyze and understand how citizenship education is defined in the normative acts of the CEPMG, whose main objective is to "train citizens who are participatory, reflexive and autonomous of their rights and obligations". This slogan is consistent with constitutional principles, but the internal regiments and praxis of these institutions prioritize obedience to norms, with veiled punishments for those who dare to challenge them. The guiding axes of the theoretical framework were: a) Education and Citizenship, with the support of Habermas (1995, 2012) and Benevides (1996); b) Military education, in the writings of Germano (1993) and Ludwig (1998); c) (In) Discipline, in the contributions of Foucault (1999) and Aquino (1996, 1998); d) Literature research, supported by Lüdke and Andre (1986) and Frigotto (1994). Method: dialectical historical materialism. Methodological procedure: bibliographic research with qualitative approach and documentary analysis. Categories of analysis: democratic management, authoritarian management, military education, (trans) social training and discipline. The results reveal that: a) the formative sense of citizenship that the CEPMG want to establish is one that is molded to military values, servis, patriots, obedient to the established order and that do not insurrection against the dominant policy; b) defends an authoritarian model of society; c) the passivity and alienation of the citizens formed in the CEPMG will contribute to more social control, to the exploratory perpetuation of the capitalist system and to the naturalization of social injustices and inequalities. It has been found that citizens shaped by these principles and hierarchical and disciplinary ideologies will contribute to the perpetuation of society in favor of (re) production and perpetuation of the capitalist system, which, fearing to lose economic and cultural hegemony, invests in servile formation to facilitate the domination and exploitation of the productive forces of the working classes.