THE CRITICAL TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY AND THE MILITARYIZATION PROCESS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN PORTO VELHO-RO
Militarization of schools. Teaching Geography. Critical education.
This Dissertation has as its theme “THE CRITICAL TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY AND THE MILITARYIZATION PROCESS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN PORTO VELHO-RO”. With the increase in violence in recent years, its trivialization inside and outside schools, in addition to the lack of discipline and cases of violence, involving more and more basic education students every day, many teachers, principals, parents and the general population understand that the answer to controlling these and several other problems in Brazilian society lies in the militarization of schools. In this way, it is understood that militarization is a common theme in current Brazilian society, encouraged by Decree no. 9665/2019, which created the Subsecretariat for Promotion of Civic-Military Schools (Secim), linked to the Secretariat of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education; and Decree no. 10.004/2019, which implemented the National Program for Civic-Military Schools (Pecim). The focus of the research is on teachers' perceptions and the implications of such changes in the students' learning process. The research has the general objective of investigating the process of militarization and its impacts on the lives of education professionals, the school community and the critical teaching of Geography in public schools in Porto Velho, Rondônia. From the point of view of method and methodology, the research is qualitative in nature and will be based on the Case Study method based on the work of Yin (2001). The schools selected to carry out the study are: a) Colégio Militar D. Pedro II, former Petrônio Barcelos State School of Elementary and Secondary Education; and b) the Manaus State School of Elementary and Secondary Education, now militarized and transformed into the Tiradentes Military Police College VII. As a methodology, the data collection technique was used, where questionnaires were applied to teachers and students, in addition to collecting data from the official documents of the selected schools, in order to answer the following research problem: How did the militarization process and its consequences occur? impacts on the lives of education professionals, the school community and critical geography teaching in public schools in Porto Velho, Rondônia? The research results can contribute to understanding the impact of this militarization process on the provision of public basic education in the state of Rondônia and, mainly, in the subject of Geography.