A Elaboração Curricular no Instituto Rio Branco: influências domésticas e externas

Abstract

The main object of study of this thesis is the curricular organization of the Rio Branco Institute, as well as the process of formation of the Brazilian diplomatic corps and its responsiveness to events arising from the external and domestic dimensions. The work seeks, using the perspective of the constructivist theory in International Relations and Education, as well as a bibliographical review regarding curriculum theories in their Traditional, Critical and Post-Critical aspects, to verify to what extent the course curriculum training of Brazilian diplomats is influenced by events of international impact, thus characterizing the external dimension, and events of an internal nature, defining, in turn, the domestic dimension. For this, twenty-three events or periods considered relevant are selected, eleven external and twelve domestic, making up two parallel timelines, the first starting in 1962 and ending in 2012, and the second from 1956 to 2018. After covering such sequences, they are revisited, but analyzing the curricula practiced before and after the events listed. Such review aims to identify changes that reflect possible adaptations to the events that occurred. Therefore, the primary sources of information are the Rio Branco Institute yearbooks corresponding to the reference years investigated. The final objective of this work, in addition to stimulating debate regarding the nature of the curricula attributed to the Brazilian diplomatic corps and their elaboration, is to verify whether the previously presented dimensions have greater, lesser or equivalent influence on the establishment of the institution's curricula throughout the time, and thus determine its sensitivity to breakpoints originating from both sources.