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 EducationPrograms in Brazil, in the database of the Sucupira Platform, between the years 2013 and 2018, throughwhich we have composed a significant corpus of 24 productions. These findings, after beinginventoried, 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 fourcategories: a) an effort to conceptualize human values; b) a persistent representation of students frompublic schools and peripheral areas as the main target subjects of an education in human values; c) acentrality in the role of the family for an education in human values; and d) the religious and sportsproposition as effectivemeans of education in human values. That said, we concluded that there is, inthe dissertations and thesis published from 2013 to 2018 outlined here, a concept of human values inthe sense of moral valuesfor the citizen formation of young people in public school. This conceptrefers, eminently, to these values as an alternative for combating insecurity, indiscipline and violence inthe reality of these young people whose family is pointed out as a reference for the absence of modelsof good conduct. In this sense, the role assumed by religiosity and sports serve as means and models toeducate them in human values.