The teaching of philosophy and sociology may once again be compulsory at secondary level. Senator Romário (Pode-RJ) announced, last week, that he accepted a popular suggestion with this request.
The suggestion (SUG 20/2018) will become a project and will be analyzed by the Senate committees. As informed by Romário, the request reached the support of almost 140 thousand citizens in the e-Cidadania portal, until last month. For a popular suggestion to be analyzed, the minimum required is 20,000 endorsements.
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The senator said he considers it a pertinent initiative. He points out that the 1988 Constitution and the National Education Guidelines and Bases Law (LDB – Law 9.394/1996) explicitly establish that education has three purposes: the full development of the person, his preparation for the exercise of citizenship and his qualification for the work. Hence the importance of teaching philosophy and sociology for the development of the student's critical sense.
“The subjects are the basis for critical thinking and for the student's citizenship formation”, stated the senator.
The suggestion came from Professor Ricardo Reiter, from Rio Grande do Sul. He argues that philosophy and sociology are fundamental in the human formation of politicized, autonomous individuals capable of exercising citizenship with conscience.
He also adds that, from philosophy, the student develops critical thinking and that sociology, in turn, helps him to understand what citizenship is.
With the reform of secondary education, presented by the government of former President Michel Temer, the teaching of these subjects was no longer mandatory and became optional in secondary education. If the matter becomes law, teaching will once again become mandatory along with traditional subjects such as Portuguese and mathematics. With information from Senate News.
