FELINTO, E. L. H.; FELINTO, Emanuel Lucas Hilário.
Abstract:
Education is a social instrument to bring about changes in the segregating structures of a
particularly socioeconomically unbalanced state, to re-signify the condition of being underfunded,
to strengthen the progressive thinking of those who already know, to promote development, and
to reduce inequalities are characteristics of education itself and, consequently, a good educational
policy. Furthermore, education alone could contribute little to a democratic state of law, if the
concept of citizenship did not exist, a fundamental principle, whose main attribute is to guarantee
the isonomic system that governs the performance of the state before its members and vicepresidents.
vice versa, all constituting democratic nations are thus guaranteed rights
constitutionally pre-established. Based on the understanding of the symbiotic relationship
between education and citizenship, nothing would be more natural than to assign to the social
right of education the task of teaching, transmitting, educating, and instructing on the fundamental
right to citizenship. However, it is incongruous to demand citizen behavior and actions, if the
instrument that the State offers to inform the population about such a principle is unsatisfactory.
Thus, the improvement of Brazilian education, to promote the improvement of the citizen's citizen
awareness, could only have resulted in the democratization of the Science of Law. This is followed
as socially and legally necessary, since legal education is already treated and described in some
way in the national legal system that talks about education - in this segment, we have, mainly, the
Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education and the Federal Constitution of 1988 - without
elementary and secondary education. Consequently, school legal education becomes the main
bibliographic source of study of the present work, which tries to contextualize the negative aspects
of the little science about notions of citizenship on the part of the population and the scarce
dissemination of legal education in the community, especially in the environment. school.
Furthermore, today the Science of Law is not treated with the essentiality requirements in the
basic curricular series of the student class, but in this research, it is identified as benefits arising
(in the medium and long term) from the basic teaching of Law in schools, also within the
achievements when a social project focuses on the promotion of citizenship through school legal
education. Methodologically, the deductive method, qualitative research, method of historical and
exegetical-legal procedure, and the bibliographic and documentary survey were used. The results
of the research are treated in such a way that the topic addressed is not exhausted, that is, not as a
numerical survey or conclusion of the problem. In addition, through the interpretation of
arguments of the competent authority and analysis of specific legislation, it is understood that
legal education is necessary to comply with the legal order, to help resolve social disputes, meet
the demand of the student class, and, for ultimately, foster equality.
