Linguistic policies of the Brazilian State in pedagogy courses: a study of course syllabi and monographs produced in a university in the northern of Brazil
Language Policy; Political Philology; Latin American critical thinking; teacher training; linguistic training in Pedagogy.
This bibliographic and documentary research, qualitative and quantitative, interprets the lack of contributions from the field of Linguistics to teachers'education in the area of Pedagogy by the Brazilian State. Contributions to teacher education also contributes to consolidating the evidence produced in research in Linguistics, Literacy and Language Policies in the country and applying it to teacher training. We analyzed course completion works that address language policies, even if not explained in catalog data, produced in the Degree in Pedagogy at a public University in the North region, available in the institutional repository. The specific objectives are: 1) analyze the work according to the thematic axes identified in Language Policies, which prove the transversality of the theme of this field of studies, not only in theoretical production, but in education, at the most varied levels; 2) understand the role of subject syllabi that intersect with linguistic studies offered in these courses, also discussing them according to the mapped thematic axes; 3) observe the conceptions of language that underlie the approaches adopted in course completion work to understand the dimension of linguistic training. Our hypothesis is that linguistic studies subjects are insufficient in the primary school teachers'education concerning Brazilian linguistic policies as a determining part in maintaining the interests of the dominant social class in the control and perpetuation of the current bourgeois order. Our Language Policy framework includes: Shohamy, 2006; Johnson, Ricento, 2012; Oliveira, 2004, 2013a, 2013b; Diniz, 2020; Ribeiro da Silva, 2011, 2013; Diniz, Ribeiro da Silva, 2019; Severus 2013; Morelo, 2012, 2016; Silva, Severo, 2019; Sturza, Mota, Mancilla Barreda, 2022. We situate the discussion on linguistic policy as a work in Political Philology (Rocha, 2013) and bring contributions from Latin American critical thought condensed in the Marxist theory of dependency (Marini, 2017, Bambirra, 2019) and the education project by Vieira Pinto (2005, 2008). We conclude that there is not enough theoretical foundation on language and language, which means that pedagogues do not identify themselves as teachers of these contents, but focused on a technical profile in pedagogy.