Democracy and education: Notes over military training in Argentina and Brazil

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Autor(a) principal: Penido, Ana [UNESP]
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Mathias, Suzeley Kalil [UNESP], Mei, Eduardo [UNESP]
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: spa
Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.17141/iconos.67.2020.4231
http://hdl.handle.net/11449/197912
Resumo: This article assumes that the countless military interventions and coups, and the decades in which both Argentina and Brazil lived under dictatorships; constitute an obstacle for democracy and reveal the importance of educating soldiers on the importance of military subordination to civilian authorities. Four major findings can be derived from the above assumptions, i) a new educational approach is unavoidable if military autonomy is to be overcome and if military subordination to civilian authorities is to take root; ii) Military education is also crucial in the training of competent military leaders, able to fulfill their duties to the countries they serve; iii) Military autonomy hampers democratic consolidation and international cooperation in defense issues; iv) Reducing the differences between military training and the civilian educational system facilitates operational defense policies and fosters the internalization of democratic values into the ranks. The differences found between the Argentinian and Brazilian cases dearly illustrate the dilemmas involved in military education. Thus, it seems useful to subject both countries to a comparative study of their opposing experiences. In order to achieve this, a military education matrix is used. The matrix is composed of four quadrants: normative, relational, reaching systematics and internal. This article focuses in the normative quadrant and shows that Brazil's current military training is dearly behind Argentina's in applying changes supportive of democratic transition.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Democracy and education: Notes over military training in Argentina and Brazil
title Democracy and education: Notes over military training in Argentina and Brazil
spellingShingle Democracy and education: Notes over military training in Argentina and Brazil
Penido, Ana [UNESP]
Argentina
Brazil
democracy
military education
Armed Forces
bureaucratic- authoritarian regimes
title_short Democracy and education: Notes over military training in Argentina and Brazil
title_full Democracy and education: Notes over military training in Argentina and Brazil
title_fullStr Democracy and education: Notes over military training in Argentina and Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Democracy and education: Notes over military training in Argentina and Brazil
title_sort Democracy and education: Notes over military training in Argentina and Brazil
author Penido, Ana [UNESP]
author_facet Penido, Ana [UNESP]
Mathias, Suzeley Kalil [UNESP]
Mei, Eduardo [UNESP]
author_role author
author2 Mathias, Suzeley Kalil [UNESP]
Mei, Eduardo [UNESP]
author2_role author
author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Penido, Ana [UNESP]
Mathias, Suzeley Kalil [UNESP]
Mei, Eduardo [UNESP]
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Argentina
Brazil
democracy
military education
Armed Forces
bureaucratic- authoritarian regimes
topic Argentina
Brazil
democracy
military education
Armed Forces
bureaucratic- authoritarian regimes
description This article assumes that the countless military interventions and coups, and the decades in which both Argentina and Brazil lived under dictatorships; constitute an obstacle for democracy and reveal the importance of educating soldiers on the importance of military subordination to civilian authorities. Four major findings can be derived from the above assumptions, i) a new educational approach is unavoidable if military autonomy is to be overcome and if military subordination to civilian authorities is to take root; ii) Military education is also crucial in the training of competent military leaders, able to fulfill their duties to the countries they serve; iii) Military autonomy hampers democratic consolidation and international cooperation in defense issues; iv) Reducing the differences between military training and the civilian educational system facilitates operational defense policies and fosters the internalization of democratic values into the ranks. The differences found between the Argentinian and Brazilian cases dearly illustrate the dilemmas involved in military education. Thus, it seems useful to subject both countries to a comparative study of their opposing experiences. In order to achieve this, a military education matrix is used. The matrix is composed of four quadrants: normative, relational, reaching systematics and internal. This article focuses in the normative quadrant and shows that Brazil's current military training is dearly behind Argentina's in applying changes supportive of democratic transition.
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