Educação para a cidadania no ensino médio: uma aproximação das articulações discursivas de alunos, docentes e documentos curriculares no âmbito da sociologia

Abstract

This thesis proposes an investigation of citizenship education in Brazil, taking as a reference the relationship between citizenship and the educational process that takes place at secondary school in the country, particularly in the scope of the school subject Sociology. The research focuses on the comparative analysis of the meanings of citizenship identified in students discourse by reference to their curricular experiences, especially in the field of Sociology, the conceptions of citizenship articulated in the discourse of curriculum guidelines for the teaching of Sociology at secondary school level and the considerations about citizenship education that emerge in the discourse of the Sociology teachers of the participating students. Students discourse was observed through the analysis of mind maps on the theme of citizenship constructed by 21 students from a local secondary school, and it was related to the analysis of specific curriculum guidelines for the teaching of Sociology at secondary school (the National Prescribed Outcomes, the National Guidelines and the local State Guidelines) and to the investigation of the teachers discourse, articulated through interviews. It is a case study, and the methodology used for analyzing data was anchored on the theoreticalepistemological framework and on categories of Discourse Theory proposed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, among which we highlight: discourse, hegemony, the axes of equivalence and difference, floating signifier, articulation, antagonism and dislocation. The study of the distinct discursive formations above-mentioned was aimed at analyzing which conceptions of citizenship appear as hegemonic in the educational arena, considering the dynamics of interdiscursivity and the intertwining of citizenship conceptions and the dimensions of agency, experience and identification. Citizenship education was discussed taking as a reference three analytical perspectives: a developmental perspective or of social responsibility, a critical or justice-oriented perspective and a perspective of everyday practice and process. In the end, we suggested some implications of the meanings of citizenship identified as hegemonic in the educational discourses observed. Those implications affect curriculum development and the pedagogical process in specific ways, enabling those aspects to contribute (or not) to the emergence of participatory citizens, not only from a social, but also from a political point of view, and facilitating (or not) the strengthening of radical and plural forms of democracy.