CIVIC-MILITARY SCHOOL PROGRAM: DIAGNOSIS OF THE PRESENT

ABSTRACT: The Civic-Military School Program (PECIM-Programa Escola Cívico-Militar) in Brazilian Education aimed to implement 216 Civic-Military Schools nationwide by 2023. The model to be implemented by the Ministry of Education seeks to reinforce public schools based on the allegedly “high-level” Army military schools. This program has been used to praise military disciplinary practices as a strategy for educational improvement and success. Considering PECIM's contemporary context, this article problematizes the current scenario, questioning the possible conditions for implementing the program. To address this problem, we made a diagnosis of the present. We relate and support this poststructuralist essay to Michel Foucault and his archaeology, deepening into knowledge-power questions of each era to locate, through speeches and statements, the historical conditions and, a priori, the discourse of militarizing public education, which gained strength and reached a place of power. In his studies, Foucault subverts the notion of linearity and analytical thinking, showing the discontinuous historicities. Furthermore, it problematizes the “truth” as absolute and universal, investigating the so-called "truth.” We used the repository of theses and dissertations at CAPES as an analysis tool to locate, through scientific production, the rationality of the time, which provided the possibility for establishing the program.