Abstract

ARAUJO, Hellen Gregol  and  LOPES, Alice Casimiro. Actions of political networks in the pandemic: defending learning and erasing contexts. e-Curriculum [online]. 2023, vol.21, e61412.  Epub Nov 13, 2023. ISSN 1809-3876.  https://doi.org/10.23925/1809-3876.2023v21e61412.

This article presents an investigation into educational actions of political networks of private and philanthropic institutions, which disseminated curricular proposals, in the Covid-19 pandemic, in conjunction with the defense of the Brazilian Common Core State Standards. Such investigation included lives, videoconference events, courses and online publications carried out in the period from 2020 to 2022. It is argued that the main discursive investment of these political networks was in student learning, as opposed to the possible scenario of horror generated by the loss of knowledge/learning due to the closure of schools. The discursive strategies involved the erasure of school contexts, via universalization and affirmation of evidence of the effects of the pandemic on learning, reaffirming the action of these institutions in guaranteeing a beatific future for education. It is questioned how much the promise of this beatific future is disconnected from politics: it is because “they are not political” that such networks are presented as being able to contribute to education.

Keywords : political networks; contextualization; learning; curriculum policies; pandemic.

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