CITIZENSHIP IDEAS IN WINDY TIMES 

 

 José Ribamar Tôrres Rodrigues Doutor em Educação pela USP Mestre em Educação pela PUC/SP Estágio em Formação de Professores no IUFM de DOUAI/ França Ex-Membro do Conselho Estadual de Educação/PI Coordenador do Fórum Estadual de Educação Membro do Banco de Avaliadores do MEC/INEP Blog: ribamartorres. blogspot.com.br. E-Mail: jrib.torres@gmail com Tel (86) 99415-9958

 

 José Ribamar Rodrigues Tôrres PhD in Education from USP Master in Education from PUC / SP Internship in Teacher Training in the IUFM of DOUAI / France Former member of the State Board of Education / PI Coordinator of the State Education Forum Member of Appraisers Bank MEC / INEP. Blog: ribamartorres.blogspot.com.br. E-Mail: jrib.torres@gmail com Tel (86) 99415-9958

 Resumo 

Os tempos de turbulência que vivemos nos remete para uma reflexão de qual o nosso papel neste processo de escolha da representação política que em última instância decide por nós e proporciona, em grande parte, as situações de segundo plano da cidadania na luta pelos interesses dos vários grupos sociais e que lugar ocupamos na legitimação ou avanço de contextos socioeconômicos e políticos nos quais vivemos. 

Palavras- chave: cidadania, representação política, processo de escolha. 

Abstract 

The turbulent times we live in lead us to reflect on our role in this process of choosing the political representation that ultimately decides for us and provides, to a large extent, the background situations of citizenship in the struggle for the interests of the various social groups and what place we occupy in the legitimation or advancement of the socio-economic and political contexts in which we live.

Keywords: citizenship, political representation, choice process. 

 Resumé 

Les temps mouvementés que nous vivons nous amènent à réfléchir sur notre rôle dans ce processus de choix de la représentation politique qui décide finalement pour nous et fournit, dans une large mesure, les situations de fond de citoyenneté dans la lutte pour les intérêts des différents groupes sociaux et quelle place nous occupons dans la légitimation ou l'avancement des contextes socio-économiques et politiques dans lesquels nous vivons. 

Mots-clés : citoyenneté, représentation politique, processus de choix. 

Resumen 

Los tiempos convulsos que vivimos nos llevan a reflexionar sobre nuestro papel en este proceso de elección de la representación política que finalmente decida por nosotros y proporcione, en gran medida, las situaciones de trasfondo de la ciudadanía en la lucha por los intereses de los distintos grupos sociales. y qué lugar ocupamos en la legitimación o avance de los contextos socioeconómicos y políticos en los que vivimos. 

Palabras clave: ciudadanía, representación política, proceso de elección. 

Sommario 

I tempi turbolenti che Sommarioviviamo ci portano a riflettere sul nostro ruolo in questo processo di scelta della rappresentanza politica che in definitiva decide per noi e fornisce, in larga misura, le situazioni di fondo della cittadinanza nella lotta per gli interessi dei vari gruppi sociali e quale posto occupiamo nella legittimazione o avanzamento dei contesti socioeconomici e politici in cui viviamo. Parole chiave: cittadinanza, rappresentanza politica, processo di scelta. 

 Zusammenfassung 

Die bewegten Zeiten, in denen wir leben, führen uns zum Nachdenken über unsere Rolle in diesem Prozess der Wahl der politischen Repräsentation, die letztlich für uns entscheidet und die staatsbürgerlichen Hintergrundsituationen im Kampf um die Interessen der verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen weitgehend vorgibt und welchen Platz wir in der Legitimation oder Weiterentwicklung der sozioökonomischen und politischen Kontexte, in denen wir leben, einnehmen.

Schlüsselwörter: Staatsbürgerschaft, politische Repräsentation, Wahlprozess. 

РЕЗЮМЕ 

Неспокойные времена, в которых мы живем, заставляют нас задуматься о нашей роли в этом процессе выбора политического представительства, которое в конечном итоге решает за нас и обеспечивает, в значительной степени, фоновые ситуации гражданственности в борьбе за интересы различных социальных групп. и какое место мы занимаем в легитимации или развитии социально-экономического и политического контекста, в котором мы живем. Ключевые 

слова: гражданство, политическое представительство, процесс выбора.

 REZYUME

Nespokoynyye vremena, v kotorykh my zhivem, zastavlyayut nas zadumat'sya o nashey roli v etom protsesse vybora politicheskogo predstavitel'stva, kotoroye v konechnom itoge reshayet za nas i obespechivayet, v znachitel'noy stepeni, fonovyye situatsii grazhdanstvennosti v bor'be za interesy razlichnykh sotsial'nykh grupp. i kakoye mesto my zanimayem v legitimatsii ili razvitii sotsial'no-ekonomicheskogo i politicheskogo konteksta, v kotorom my zhivem. 

Klyuchevyye slova: grazhdanstvo, politicheskoye predstavitel'stvo, protsess vybora. 

 

Oh times, Oh customs! As we are living in this moment of preparation for choosing regional representatives, we offer a first approach for the discussion of this topic, which will define another stage in our future as citizens. education, citizenship and voting The educational process, the exercise of citizenship and the citizen's political participation are inseparable.

 Education and citizenship embody an emancipatory and libertarian character in relation to the conditions for the expansion of human rights. The political and social equality of citizens is based on education for democracy against the “kidnapping” of rights, speech and participation. 

The word is the great “stick of magic” in the exercise of citizenship. As it lends itself to “serving two masters”, the education of the citizen is decisive in the handling of this weapon: the argument which instructs the citizen in distinction, comparison, analysis and choice. The word anesthetizes, infuriates, moves, condemns and absolves, silences and ennobles, denies and orders, dominates and liberates. 

In this sense, Stuart Mill states in the book “Considerations on Representative Government” (p.80-1) that: “... the only way to suppress the instincts of the democratic majority is through the educated minority, but in the way that democracies are normally constituted, this minority does not have a channel for its influence..."Education seems fundamental for the exercise of citizenship and for the realization of human rights, not only because it equips the citizen for social struggle, but because it makes him socializable and, mainly, because it makes him capable of directing and controlling power.

 Education itself is a factor of inequality because it determines and is determined by social and economic differences. Today, information seems to be the main “currency” for social exchanges and access to social codes. Education in itself does not magically promote equality, but it is an essential part of the change that can operate in the citizen through political and social participation. 

Considering that democracy is based on popular sovereignty, the citizen is also the government and must exercise this power through the democratic practice of participation in the public discussion of collective interests. 

 The vices resulting from democratic practice are linked to the form of political organization of each culture. In Brazil, the representative system is mixed with mechanisms of direct democracy such as the plebiscite, referendum and popular initiative.

 In this process, the more insipient the political education of the citizen, the more he is at the mercy of leaders who are more legitimized by populist processes, clientelists of moral, religious and economic appeal than by the commitment to make a collective conscience emerge. 

The issue of citizen participation has been an object of discussion from the Greeks to more recent authors such as Rousseau, Montesquieu, Stuart Mill, Bobbio and Maria Vitória Benevides, author of the book: 

“The Active Citizenship”. Political representation presupposes two essential aspects: how someone represents others and what they represent. Representation implies the delegation of powers. The gap between what is proclaimed and practice has provoked the discussion about the fiduciary or trust representation, which means the free mandate where, by vote, the citizen gives the representative a "free hand" and the representation of an imperative mandate in which the mandate is of the party and not of the candidate and is linked to the interests of those who are represented.

The latter was not possible in Brazil due to the incompatibility with our monarchical practice, shining with democracy where the parties suffer an identity crisis. In this sense, the legally constituted representatives represent groups in power and not the people, who are vulnerable to abuse of economic power.

 In the same proportion that voters find themselves disconnected from their political representation and party ideals, they are also disconnected from their class representation, whose representative summits, in some cases, assume the defense of a party program to the detriment of class interests when its affiliates represent a spectrum of ideologies. Hence, some class entities are vulnerable to the pressures of power. It is essential to open mechanisms for popular participation, without manipulation and without partisanship and without corporatism, so that the democracy of discourse can materialize because it is not enough to recognize human rights, it is necessary to respect, promote and protect them. 

The phenomenon of political practice currently being experienced seems to reprise the most retrograde populist tactics in a new version, smarter and more strategic than those of the 1930s and 1960s. 

The republican practices are actually replaced by old monarchic customs in the most bizarre versions such as L’Etat C’est moi, of the prebends granted to certain interest groups, regardless of the Law that marks the equality of rights and, more broadly, of the Social Contract. 

The party-political practice argues to convince democratic and ethical deviations that it is not an oligarchy because in reality the representatives were elected by popular vote.

 Thus, it is implicit the discourse of transfer of responsibility where, for them, if there is a mistake, the people are to blame, since they endorsed the choice of their representative with their vote. 

 What is not discussed is under what conditions this popular legitimation was carried out by a mass of voters co-opted by the most diverse appeals ranging from pseudo-religious discourse to the humiliation of the economic power that submits consciences. In this sense, the electoral justice has shown that it is attentive and active in the process to defeat this practice that puts democratic hopes in check. 

New Times, New Debates In the continuation of this blog, we will reflect on some themes that involve, at some point, our citizen participation in the destinies of our social life.

 Among these themes, we can elect: the reinstatement of the Piauí Academy of Education; human rights education; Literacy: from manipulation to liberation and innovation; Understanding IDEB; Understand ENEM AND ENADE; The Education Assessment Policy in Brazil; The fallacy of political use of IDEB results; The challenges of education in Teresina; The discourse and practice of democracy in public schools; Public education policies in Brazil; The ten-year education plan – 2011-2020. 

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