Educação para a cidadania: do contexto de produção ao contexto da prática

Abstract

This is a study based on national normative precepts that deal with education for citizenship, more specifically, with the establishment of citizenship as the purpose of education. It discusses the essential elements of the educational policy for the formation of citizen awareness, that is, the preparation of students, through education, for the exercise of active citizenship. The investigation of this educational public policy is carried out through the Policy Cycle approach, a framework that treats policy as a text and as a discourse, developing an analysis of the relationships between the different dimensions in which policies circulate and are interpreted and translated immersed in relationships of knowledge and power. The locus of this investigation is the Integrated Technical Course in Informatics, on the Campo Grande campus, of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Mato Grosso do Sul, and its corpus is constituted by legal and institutional documents, recognizing them as political texts, in addition to questionnaires applied to students, understanding them as signs of processes experienced and recorded in a given time and space of action, portraying the interaction of subjects in political arenas. This work proposed to analyze whether the Context of Practice of the aforementioned course reflects what was foreseen in the Context of Text Production as regards the preparation of students for the exercise of citizenship. Therefore, the Policy Cycle was approached as a reference for analyzing the policy that deals with the formation of citizen awareness, in addition to the presentation of conceptual and historical aspects of citizenship and its relationship with education. The methodological procedures adopted to achieve its purpose consisted of conducting bibliographic and documentary research and applying questionnaires to students. From all of the above, this research offered possibilities for students to reflect on the translation of the public policy for the formation of citizen awareness in the Context of Practice and, furthermore, it resulted in the development of an Educational Product capable of helping to prepare students for the exercise of citizenship, which was embodied in the format of a digital book entitled “Education for Citizenship: The construction of citizen awareness in Professional and Technological Education”.