Abstract

PIOVEZAN, Patrícia Regina  and  VIEITEZ, Candido Giraldez. National curriculum parameters for secondary education: preparing for the insecurity of the labor market. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2013, vol.38, n.2, pp.469-487. ISSN 0101-7136.  https://doi.org/10.5216/ia.v38i2.226135.

The objective of this paper is to show how the category work is addressed in the National Curriculum Parameters for Secondary Education (PCNEM), as this category is considered the main plank for the formulation of curriculum reform in secondary education. In that document, there are two central planks, work and citizenship, but citizenship is aggregated and subjected to the new requirements of the labor market, which according to the document, was set up after the 1970s. According to the authors of the PCNEM, contemporary society underwent two major transformations in the 70s: the revolution of technology and of knowledge, which gave rise to new demands in the production process, labor market and social relations. Based on these Education Ministry justifications for the reform of Brazilian secondary education, the goal of this article is to analyze how work is defined in the document, how curriculum organization at secondary school level has adapted to the new trends and what are these new demands of the labor market to which the document intends to adapt. For this analysis, the categories work, alienated work and job insecurity are used.

Keywords : National Curriculum Parameters for Secondary Education; Labor; Citizenship; Productive Restructuring; Job Insecurity.

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