Tosco project in action: between teachers at the service of military education and the fairytale of adolescents that overcome drugs

Abstract

This work is part of the research that integrates the project Didactic and Paradidatural Materials on Drugs, Alcohol and Other Drugs for Basic Education: approaches, lines of action and purposes, focused on the analysis of publications and programs that dealt with the theme in the last 20 years in Brazil. The objects analyzed here are books “Tosco” (MATTJE, 2009), paradidactic written by Gilberto Mattje, and its supplement, “Compreendendo Tosco” (MATTJE, 2011), by the same author - base materials of the project “Tosco em Ação”. The sources used are diverse and comprise official documents, newspapers and periodicals and official virtual domains. The objective was to analyze: 1 - the process of creation of the project and its entry in Rio de Janeiro and in the municipality of Seropédica; 2 - the work as a fictional text, created for children and youth and its use as a teaching tool to promote the debate on drugs and other issues in the school environment; 3 - the role of the school and educators in the project. Such investments were supported by a theoretical framework proposed by Roger Chartier (1998), Paulo Freire (1996), Carlos Rodrigues Brandão (1982) and Howard Becker (2008). As a result, we have the characterization of a drug prevention policy that was developed under the Military Police Command and private initiative as part of a government policy of the several federal units, including Rio de Janeiro, the absence of educational agencies in this process and the recruitment of the teacher as a multiplier of the proposal.