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SANTOS, João Paulo Lopes dos. Governmentality and political networks: theoretical-methodological tools in research on curriculum policies. Acta Educ. [online]. 2024, vol.46, n.1, e64677.  Epub 01-Dez-2024. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v46i1.64667.

This article aims to present the notions of governmentality in Foucault and governance political networks in Ball as useful analytical tools to think about other effects of Brazilian curricular policies, especially the most recent ones. Thus, the question is: is it possible to mobilize such notions as theoretical-methodological potentialities in research on curriculum policies? The argument is based on the defense that its operations make it possible to understand how curriculum policies have been manufactured and permeated by diverse voices and multiple interests. Regarding the methodological aspects, the present study is built on the platform of post-structural epistemology of Foucauldian philosophy with the notion of governmentality and the understanding of political networks elaborated by Ball. In the face of emergency of other ways of thinking, reflecting and acting on history, society and politics, such approaches allow us to unveil, at the heart of discursive complexes, a political anatomy of governance. Curricular policies, therefore, are technologies manufactured from the knowledge-power connection. They are products of political networks directed, in a practical sense, to conduct behaviors, subjectivities and populations. In this order, other ways of life are rejected in the face of a common project of the individual, giving way to the neoliberalized subject, trained and formed as human capital, incapable of contesting the power that is exercised over itself.

Palavras-chave : brazilian curriculum policies; methodological possibilities; governance political networks.

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