Abstract

CABRAL, Lucas Munhoz  and  JORDAO, Rosana dos Santos. NATIONAL COMMON CURRICULAR BASE: SCIENCE AND MULTICULTURALISM. e-Curriculum [online]. 2020, vol.18, n.1, pp.111-136.  Epub Sep 30, 2020. ISSN 1809-3876.  https://doi.org/10.23925/1809-3876.2020v18i1p111-136.

The National Common Curricular Base - known by the acronym BNCC - is the document that depicts the present Brazilian curricular policy through a selection of a set of apprenticeship for all the Basic Education. Given its educational importance, we analyzed the final version of this document, published in 2018, with the purpose of verifying if elements of multiculturalism are included in its general text and in the specific part of the area of Natural Sciences. To this end, excerpts that mention ethical foundations and treatments aimed at plurality were selected, and the analysis of the skills assigned to the area of Natural Sciences in Elementary School I and II was carried out. As a result, we identified that, although the BNCC uses arguments based on the defense of equal rights to diversities, only 1% of the skills for Science use verbs associated with the learning of values. In addition, the presence of skills potentially associated with multiculturalism was considered reduced and, in some cases, superficial. This timid participation of multiculturalism in the Base is a worrying result, revealing how far we are from approaching pluralism beyond a mere moral agreement.

Keywords : National Common Curricular Base; Multiculturalism; Curriculum; Natural Science teaching; Educational policies.

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