O Programa Forças no Esporte na faixa de fronteira do Brasil: uma contribuição para a cidadania

Abstract

This research aims to understand how Forces in Sports Program (PROFESP) works in the border strip, in a context of public policy in the area of Defense, to evaluate whether it contributes to citizenship. As a general objective, we sought to analyze the assistance and educational activities developed by PROFESP in four border platoons in the State of Roraima. To achieve the proposed objective, a literature review on public policies of the interministerial program "Forces in Sport" was carried out. The theoretical framework focused on themes such as public policies, social programs, governance, citizen and citizenship, moral and physical education. Defense documents and quantitative parameters about PROFESP and about the educational strategies used in the program in the scope of sports practices were also analyzed. The surveys had as a time frame the period between 2013 and 2019, in the PROFESP of the Border Command RR/7º BIS. The study also evaluated the assistance and educational activities developed by PROFESP in the Border Platoons, through exploratory research, using the case study. Data were collected through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with managers, teachers and former students. Due to the difficulty of locating the alumni of the program, former students living in other regions of Brazil were interviewed. In the data analysis, we used the approach of content analysis of Laurence Bardin in which the answers were grouped according to themes. The results obtained confirmed that PROFESP's educational and care work, in a region where its participants are in a vulnerable condition, contributes to the construction of citizenship, in terms of guaranteeing social rights, developing the conduct of social participation and assimilation of rules of conduct based on mutual respect, contributing to the employability of graduates.