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Cientistas de farda: a presença de militares professores no CBPF

2014; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

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Heráclio Tavares,

Education Pedagogy and Practices

O objetivo principal deste artigo e analisar o envolvimento de militares com pesquisa e ensino no CBPF, iniciado em meados dos anos 1950. Atraves das passagens do general Argus Ourique Moreira e do coronel Antonio Jose Duffles de Amarante pelo Centro, concomitantemente aos seus vinculos a instituicoes e projetos de pesquisa militares, percebemos uma circulacao de ideias, projetos e instrumentos cientificos que pode ser entendida como uma tentativa de alinhamento entre as estruturas militar e cientifica no Brasil. Alem disso, atraves da analise da circulacao institucional dos homens de farda aqui citados, e possivel comparar as caracteristicas de ensino e pesquisa no meio civil e no meio militar. O conjunto de elementos que analisamos leva-nosa conclusao de que a presenca de militares em projetos de pesquisa no CBPF se justifica por um papel muito mais de execucao e de apoio a investigacoes realizadas por fisicos do Centro do que o de uma participacao eminentemente criadora e/ou inventiva por parte dos militares. Palavras chave : CBPF, Exercito brasileiro, general Argus, coronel Duffles, acelerador de particulas, circulacao de conhecimento. Abstract The main objective of this paper is to analyses the military relationship with research and teaching at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas (CBPF), which had its beginnings during the 1950s. We perceived the circulation of ideas, projects and scientific instruments between research institutions of Army and the CBPF as a trying to establish an alignment between the military and scientific structures in Brazil. This tentative has happened during the time of work at CBPF of General Argus Ourique Moreira and of Colonel Jose Antonio Duffles Amarante, simultaneously with their liaisons with military institutions that were developing scientific projects. Furthermore, by analyzing the institutional circulation of the men in uniform quoted above, it is possible to compare the characteristics of teaching and research in civil and military places. The set of elements that we analyzed lead us to the conclusion that the military presence in research projects in CBPF is justified by a role much more of execution and of a support to investigations done by CBPF’s physicists than a creative or inventive participation of the militaries. Keywords: CBPF, Brazilian Army, general Argus, coronel Duffles, particle accelerator, circulation of knowledge.