Educação como direito humano: uma análise de dissertações e teses das universidades federais da Região Centro-Oeste

Abstract

The search for an education for all requires the consideration of the historical and current context in which the defense of education as a right is developed and the implementation of necessary changes for it to materialize. In this sense, the present research developed within the scope of the Line of Educational Knowledge and Practices had the general objective to analyze how the dissertations and theses of the Graduate Programs in Education of the Federal Universities of the Central-West Region, defended in the period between 2016 to 2020, have addressed the issue of Human Rights and what contributions these works have brought to education. The specific objectives consisted of: identifying the concept of Human Rights assumed by the authors of the works; indicate other themes and concepts presented by the authors related to the theme of Human Rights; and explain the main results of these researches. This research, of the bibliographic type, was developed from approximations with historical-dialectical materialism, establishing a dialogue with the decolonial perspective that contributed to deepening the understanding of education in human rights. Content analysis, based on Bardin (2011), guided the construction of analysis categories according to the research questions and objectives. We understand that the concept of human rights that guides the analyzed works is linked to the contemplation of diversities and interculturality for the proper inclusion of all people as subjects of rights. In general, the studies indicate the need to overcome violence and point out the urgency of building training processes anchored in more human values ​​and in the strengthening of personal interrelationships, in order to consolidate Education in Human Rights. Research in education, such as those analyzed and which work with the theme of human rights, substantiate the need to transform education in the sense of thinking about the processes that influence it, identifying and breaking with injustices and developing with the subjects a formation more humane that reflects on social relations and the realization of a more dignified life for all people, corroborating with the structuring of a country project with more social justice.