‘Attention, at ease, fall in:’ Military school and the shaping to barbarism

Abstract

The article analyzes the Programa de Gestão Compartilhada do Distrito Federal (Brazil’s Federal District’s Program of Shared Management), which has already transformed twelve public schools into Civic-Military Schools. The analysis of the regulations that govern the functioning of these schools demonstrates that the rules imposed on students resembles the ones in military barracks, disfiguring common, desirable, and necessary principles for educational institutions, as well as bringing practices that deny the right to education as described in the current Brazilian Constitution. Based on Anísio Teixeira and Theodor Adorno, it was possible to observe that the rules established in the guiding normative instruments may lead to training for barbarism and the construction of authoritarian personalities.