A formação para a cidadania nas disciplinas de Fundamentos da Educação no Curso de Pedagogia do CFP-UFCG.

Abstract

The present work has the general objective of analyzing how citizenship training takes place in the subjects of Fundamentals of Education, offered by the Pedagogy course at CFP-UFCG, (Campus de Cajazeiras-PB, high backlands of Paraíba) and justifying the starting from the desire to understand how the Fundamentals of Education disciplines contribute to the citizenship training of future pedagogues. What motivated it was the difficulties faced in the Pedagogy course regarding understanding political and social concepts present in the academic texts worked on and in the discussions promoted in the classroom; non-compliance with participatory demands during classes and/or academic events held at the university, with regard to expressing opinions, taking positions and taking a critical stance in academic debates; the political polarization experienced with great intensity in 2022 during the presidential election period, but which began in previous years. In this research, we seek to answer the following problematizing question: are the students of the aforementioned Pedagogy course receiving an education that enables awareness and reiterates this individual about citizenship training? The methodology adopted was a qualitative approach, with a field study, using individual interviews as a data collection instrument, in a semi-structured format. The interview was carried out (remotely) with six students from the Pedagogy course who had already taken the Fundamentals of Education subjects. The main references that gave theoretical support to this investigation were the following authors: Carlos Rodrigues Brandão (1995); Paulo Freire (2002); Ester Buffa, Miguel Arroyo and Paolo Nosella (2003); Aida Maria Monteiro Silva (2000), among others. The context of this investigation involves the research spaces of the Teacher Training Center at the Federal University of Campina Grande, located in the city of Cajazeiras. From the analysis of the data, it was possible to perceive that there is a recognition among the students that the fundamental subjects of education provided them with the opportunity to make positive contributions in their process of building citizenship. However, civic practices among students in the academic field are still subject to the permission of teachers.