Moral and civic education: The resumption of obligation by the conservative agenda

Abstract

This paper seeks to confront the proposal of reintroducing the moral and civic education as a compulsory subject at school by the group who defends an archetype of morality and good customs, whose this favorable context have been articulated with de National Program of the Civic-Military Schools. We use the analytical tool of the policy cycle and consider the concept of hibernation as a mechanism to maintain this subject in activity. The empirical analysis is based on legislatives documents which are intent to offer the moral and civic education as a subject since 1996, putting emphasis on documents of the conservative agenda after the presidential election, in 2018. We conclude that this dispute is related to a management project as moral technology that opposes the democratic management of public schools.