Educação, cidadania e reflexão sobre a democracia no Brasil do início do século XXI

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Macedo, Caio Sperandéo de
• Orientador(a): Chalita, Gabriel
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Direito
• Departamento: Faculdade de Direito
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação; Cidadania; Democracia participativa; Capital social; Sociedade em rede
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Education; Citizenship; Participatory democracy; Social capital; Network society
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::DIREITO
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/6474

The research aims to reflect on education and citizenship in Brazil at the beginning of the XXI Century and adopt them as benchmarks for the development of our democracy. Assumption that there is a dynamic feedback relationship between education and citizenship: to promote effective participatory democracy required by the Constitution of 1988, the society must be educated and be aware of their rights and how to exercise them democratically. To require the State and successive governments materialize housed rights in the Constitution, such as education, it is imperative that citizens organize themselves in acts of citizenship, promote policies to require its demands before the public space actions, as conceptualized by Hannah Arendt, the order to influence government decisions and their political representatives. Reaffirm the primacy of popular sovereignty that legitimizes the constitution of 1988 that the state is for the citizen and not the citizen to the state; especially why we chose a state of social welfare that has the obligation to promote the equalization of opportunities, mitigate inequalities and practicing social justice. Redeem for democracy values linked to civic participation, develop social capital of society to instill commitment of citizens with their rights with the rights of other citizens and with the designs of the state. Moreover, referring to the studies of Manuel Castells, we live in the information age, the network society; social structure based on operated by communication technologies that serve as privileged for the exercise of citizenship channel networks. Produce and propagate information from the accumulated knowledge in networks; streamlines horizontal dialogue, debates, opinions, ideas and fosters contradictory. The network society besides influencing sociality, culture, sovereignty and economic order, has the power to create new contours in a participatory democracy in communicative interaction among participants without the mediation and control of information by the state, contributing decisively in shaping public opinion, and enable new experiences for political action of citizens in contemporary democracies