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Social representation, Militarization, Civic-military school.
This Master's Research emerges from my experiences and training based on democratic values in the personal, professional and social spheres. Since 2007, I am an effective professor linked to SEDUC-GO, currently at the Céu Azul State School, which became the Céu Azul Civic-Military State School (EECIM Céu Azul) in 2019. The research addresses the militarization of public schools, an ideological and authoritarian project of the Federal Government, which since 2019 transforms regular schools into civic-military ones. Based on Moscovici (2015) and Jodelet’s (2001) contributions, we highlight that social representations are human constructions for apprehension of reality through the behaviors, curiosities, information, physical and intellectual domain of the world. These mechanisms of seeing the world are social for the reason that the world is socially shared collectively between the real and the imaginary of the individuals who build it. These representations serve as support for each other and often converge or diverge in the search for understanding of a given social phenomenon, with the aim of understanding, managing or confronting it. (JODELET, 2001). Together with this aspect, the objectives of this study are to present and discuss elements that make up the semantic field of the phenomenon of social representations of civic-military public schools for teachers of elementary and secondary education. The present study has as research object the Social Representations of Teachers on the Civic-Military School of Novo Gama/GO Regional Education. This research has social relevance, entering into one of the most tense and turbulent periods in Brazil's recent history, marked by frequent threats to democracy, loss of guarantees of fundamental rights, censorship and attacks on the academic freedom. The research field of this study is the Civic-Military State School – Céu Azul, located in the municipality of Valparaíso de Goiás – GO, with elemantary and high school classes both in the morning and evening. The research subjects are composed of actual teachers from the framework of the state network, coming from a public tender, and those who have employment link by temporary contract. The research is exploratory in nature and is characterized by the quantitative bias of the plurimetodological perspective, enabling the collection of data from the application of the following instruments: Technique de Association Libre de Paroles (TALP) and questionnaire. In this perspective, the free association questionnaire (ABRIC, 1998) and the directed association survey were used. (SILVA, 2008). This technique aims to identify the semantic field of representations, elucidating the peripheral and nuclear elements of social representation. In the analysis of the data, the interlocutory between the Theory of Social Representations and the Content Analysis proposed by Bardin (2016), allowed to undertake a semantic categorization of data, resulting from the analyses made from the data collected in TALP and the theoretical contribution adopted for this study. Therefore, studies such as this can indicate, on the one hand, how much the social representations of teachers may be coordinating actions of acceptance of the use of the standardization of authoritarian and coercive behaviors that exclude and deny the different identities existing in the school and on the other hand, reinforce and strengthen attitudes that define the school as a space of production of new knowledge.