As gramáticas emocionais e pedagogias de si na formação de praças militares da unidade da corporação no Estado da Paraíba.

Abstract

The research that resulted in this dissertation text has as its object the formal preparation process of the Military Police in Paraíba, proposing to study the formal and hidden curricula, programs of the disciplines and conceptions of the training agents, which compose the emotional and the pedagogies of themselves exercised in the formative instances of the military police in the State, from the case study of the Corporation Unit in Paraíba. Our theoretical perspective is based on the more general socio-anthropological debate about military police training and on the concepts of emotional grammars, by Durão (2013), of self pedagogies, by Foucault (2008) and of social forms, by Simmel (1950). The methodology of our research foresees the analysis of the ‘curricula’ - in some of their versions since the founding of the Military Police Academy (APMCB / PB) - of the syllabus of the disciplines contained in them, the direct observation of the activities of two disciplines - and also the application of questionnaires with an intentional sample of students and police training agents of the institution, focusing on the formal instruction delivered by the corporation unit in Paraíba. Among the main conclusions of the study, we highlight the following: (1) The process of military police training to follow the Army's regulation has as its main content the disciplining of the military police and the figure of the enemy of the State, which potentiates the rejection of the rights training and daily work practices; (2) the body of the military police in formation is worked in such a way as to offer itself without any resistance to the obedience of the orders of the hierarchically superior, and the passion for the instrument is one of the most fundamental elements of the emotional grammar to be acquired; and (3) the course itself prepares the future police for practices of maintaining public safety, instituting an opposition between the valorization of the strong body and scientific knowledge, the latter being seen as 'for the less strong'.