Alterações curriculares do Curso Preparatório de Cadetes do Ar nos anos de 1988 e 2017: ganho ou perda da qualidade no ensino militar?

Abstract

The Brazilian Air Force is responsible for training its professional military personnel and it can do so according to the professional profile it desires. The present work’s objective was to compare the Minimum Curriculum of the Air Cadets Preparatory of 1988 and 2017 and identify to what extent the changes made removed important content for the military career, and introduced sociological and philosophical disciplines foreign to the barracks culture. The theory of competences was used as a theoretical framework, and literature review and documentary research was used as methodology. The inductive method was used to arrive at the presented problem’s solution, taking the premises presented in the documents in force and comparing them with the curricular analysis data. Finally, it concludes that the curricular changes reduced in 364 school hours the disciplines that are necessary for admissions to the Air Force Academy and increased 30 school hours of English language in response to the Air Force Command’s wishes. However, the study was not conclusive to state that, by increasing 270 school hours in Social Studies, there was the introduction of disciplines with fundamentals foreign to the military culture.