RACISM IN THE CURRICULUM OF THE MILITARY POLICE TRAINING COURSES FROM STATE RONDÔNIA
State Police; racism; curriculum; formation.
The research discusses racism in the training courses curriculum for the Rondônia State Police (PMRO) from the observation that Brazilian Education does not effectively face racism, even after enactment of Law 10.639/03 (amended by the law 11.645, of March 10, 2008), which modified the Law of Directives and Bases for Education in National Education (LDB/1996) and included in the official curriculum of the public and private school system the mandatory teaching on “History of Africa and Africans, the struggle of blacks in Brazil, Brazilian black culture and black people in the formation of national society [...]”. It aims to explain how the training courses of the Rondônia State Police could overcome the ways in which ethnic-racial issues and racism are dealt with in their curriculum. The research takes place in the city of Porto Velho, capital of the state of Rondônia. Inspired by the dialectical method, it uses the following data collection techniques: “bibliographic review” of concepts and theories about race and racism and other related ones; “state of knowledge” with analysis of dissertations and thesis on the proposed topic on the platform of the Brazilian Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations (BDTD), in the CAPES Thesis & Dissertations Catalog and the Digital Library of the Unified Public Security System (SUSP); Document Analysis, through the historical-critical method, of the activities and proposals of the subjects of the Training Courses for Soldiers (2018), Sergeants (2022) and Officers (2014); Resolution nº. 214, September 11, 2017, which it has approved the “General Education Directive” (DGE), an Administrative Act that regulates the teaching activities of the PMRO and the National Curricular Matrix (MCN), for training actions for professionals in the area of Public Security (BRASIL, 2014) and semi-structured interviews with teaching commanders, course coordinators, company commanders, platoon commanders and discipline instructors. The analysis will be developed from the concepts of curriculum and content proposed by Historical-Critical Pedagogy (SAVIANE, 2011). The preliminary results of the study demonstrate that discussions about ethnic-racial issues and racism are precariously anticipated in the DGE and somewhat more substantial in the MCN. The results show that the teaching plans of the PMRO training courses do not adopt a specific subject on the issue, nor didactic units in sparse subjects that work with content, such as: Human Rights, Human Dignity, Criminology, Criminal Sociology, Socio-psychological Approach of violence, etc. Finally, there is no institutional concern for the development of anti-racist content in specific subjects or for transversal instruction in teaching plans, making anti-discriminatory state police training impossible.