Educação para a democracia: o exercício da memória política da ditadura civil-militar no Brasil pelas mãos dos Educativos de museus

Abstract

Educating for citizenship became part of the Educational Pedagogical Proposals of almost all Schools in Brazil from 1985 onwards with the country’s re-democratization. At the same time, the political disputes that emerged since the late 1970s sought to impose a type of transition that disregarded the erasure of Human Rights violations and State violence practices in favor of national reconstruction. The research presented in this dissertation aims to reinforce the discussion around the concepts of memory and forgetting based on the role assumed by the Educational Action Centers in Places of Memory of the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship in the city of São Paulo. It seeks to investigate how this Action advances in mobilizing the school public and, perhaps, society as a whole. The research prioritizes the analysis of data produced by the Educational Action team of the Memorial da Resistência and its ability to spread its experience to other museums of the same nature. Through a debate that questions what Memory is, how the construction of remembering and forgetting occurs, how the memory of the struggle for Brazil’s re-democratization was and is treated, it seeks to contribute to solidifying the dialogue between Educational Sectors, school practices, and an Education on the citizen agenda that values Democracy as a non-negotiable value