EDUCATION AND HUMAN VALUES: AN EVALUATION OF STUDIES PRODUCED IN BRAZIL IN 2013-2018

ABSTRACT:

The objective of this study is to map the academic productions dedicated to the study of human values articulated to the educational context and school practice of Brazilian teachers. To this end, we have undertaken a survey of theses and dissertations within the Post-Graduate Education Programs in Brazil, in the database of the Sucupira Platform, between the years 2013 and 2018, through which we have composed a significant corpus of 24 productions. These findings, after being inventoried, were analyzed from the Thematic Analysis methodology, as proposed by Braun and Clarck (2009), which was constituted as our epistemological framework. Our results are organized in four categories: a) an effort to conceptualize human values; b) a persistent representation of students from public schools and peripheral areas as the main target subjects of an education in human values; c) a centrality in the role of the family for an education in human values; and d) the religious and sports proposition as effective means of education in human values. That said, we concluded that there is, in the dissertations and thesis published from 2013 to 2018 outlined here, a concept of human values in the sense of moral values for the citizen formation of young people in public school. This concept refers, eminently, to these values as an alternative for combating insecurity, indiscipline and violence in the reality of these young people whose family is pointed out as a reference for the absence of models of good conduct. In this sense, the role assumed by religiosity and sports serve as means and models to educate them in human values.

Keywords:
Human values; Education; Youth