Abstract

FURTADO, Renan Santos  and  SILVA, Vergas Vitória Andrade da. THE REFORM UNDERWAY IN BRAZILIAN HIGH SCHOOL AND THE NATURALIZATION OF SCHOOL AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES. e-Curriculum [online]. 2020, vol.18, n.1, pp.158-179.  Epub Sep 30, 2020. ISSN 1809-3876.  https://doi.org/10.23925/1809-3876.2020v18i1p158-179.

This article discusses the changes defined for the “new” Brazilian high school. The focus of the analysis falls on the aspect that concerns the curricular reform that establishes the formative itineraries. To address this purpose, we raise the following research problem: can the establishment of training itineraries contribute to the widening of inequalities in the school system? We start from the assumption that the offer of training itineraries is linked to one of the functions inherent to education systems, namely: reproduction and legitimization of social and school inequalities. Therefore, from the point of view of the theoretical approach, we base the study of curriculum reform in the light of the perspective of sociologists Pierre Bourdieu and Jean Claude-Passeron. In methodological terms, we produced a study whose perspective was intended to be qualitative. The empirical investigation was based on the focus of the document of Law 13.415/2017. Therefore, we chose the document analysis research technique in order to examine the discursive structure present in the Law. In this way, we seek to describe, analyze and interpret the statements of the legal text, realizing what underlies the words, their ideological constructions and the speeches implicit. More closely, the documentary analysis of Law 13,415/2017 was carried out through the selection and examination of three dimensions dear to the purposes of this study. They are: 1. Increased workload and the establishment of full-time schools; 2. the proposal for integral training of students and 3. the ideal of flexibilization of the curriculum that establishes the option of choosing training paths. The results of the research allow us to infer that the intrinsic function of the teaching systems of hiding their disguised relationship with social classes is connected to the objective, also hidden, of the reform of high school and of the formative itineraries, namely: to provide students Brazilian public schools have a small formation whose effect is the possibility of widening and naturalizing social and school inequalities.

Keywords : Curricular reform; Formative itineraries; Reproduction; Legitimation; School inequalities.

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