Abstract

SACHINSKI, Gabriele Polato; KOWALSKI, Raquel Pasternak Glitz  and  TORRES, Patricia Lupion. The elective subjects in the New High School: a possible way to Open Schooling. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.77, pp.730-745.  Epub Aug 15, 2023. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.23.077.ds05.

The present study seeks to reflect on how the elective disciplines proposed by the New High School can contribute to make Open Schooling a reality in Brazilian education. To do so, it takes as a starting point the assumptions of Archer et al. (2015), Kowalski et al. (2021) and Okada and Sherborne (2018) for the conceptualization of Open Schooling and for the presentation of the CONNECT Project. In addition, an analysis is made of the official documents that govern Brazilian education, in particular the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) (BRASIL, 2018). The objective of this research is to reflect on the contributions of elective subjects to the discussion of current and relevant issues to the students' context. For this, it is taken as object of analysis the reflections enabled by the experience report of the activities performed during a discipline entitled "Between utopias and dystopias, history is made", offered as an elective to students of the 1st grade of the New High School of a private high school, located in the metropolitan area of Curitiba, Paraná. The answers of 18 students from this subject, collected through an online form, are also analyzed. The reflections made and the results achieved demonstrate that elective courses, by being more flexible and starting from subjects of interest, allow a greater opening of the teaching-learning process.

Keywords : Open Schooling; Project CONNECT; New High School; Elective Subjects; Common National Curricular Base.

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