Abstract

SCOFANO, Ricardo  and  RANNIERY, Thiago. DISSENSUS IN THE CURRICULUM POLITICS: a sense trouble. Revista Teias [online]. 2022, vol.23, n.71, pp.129-141.  Epub Feb 28, 2023. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.2022.70180.

We wrote this article, persecuted by the following provocation: “politics supposes more than the words that define it”. As a result of an inter-institutional research project, we heard this speech when we followed a conversation circle for the production of a curricular policy for a municipal public education network. Taking seriously the speech of professors with whom we had contact, we intend to reimagine curriculum politics in its notoriously affective and sensitive quadrant, understanding it as a choreography of affections and expressions between bodies of different natures. In our view - when we map a process of curricular reformulation -, the political experience is established and can be thought through a non-consensual and immanent relationship to the acts of seeing, doing and speaking, as elaborated by Jacques Rancière in several writings. In other words, because we do not agree and do not have a consensus regarding what the curriculum is (what happens at school, an official document, a practice of meaning, life itself: definitions are not totalizable), our argument exposes how curriculum politcs manifests itself as a space-time of convergence and spillover of difference. In this way, a problem of meaning in politics arises, that is, of how words and things are (dis)articulated and in their respective irreducibility; movement that produces different sensoriality regimes in political communities within the curricular experience.

Keywords : curriculum politics; curriculum theory; dissensus; affection; sensitive.

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