Cartographies of the Life Project: subjectivities, controls and resistances in the New High School

Abstract

DUTRA-PEREIRA, Franklin Kaic  and  TINOCO, Saimonton. Cartographies of the Life Project: subjectivities, controls and resistances in the New High School. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2025, vol.25, n.84, pp.40-55.  Epub May 19, 2025. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.25.084.ds03.

This article presents the results of the project "MAPS: Inventive Cartography of the Life Project in High School" which aimed to investigate the inclusion of the life project as a curricular component of the New High School. Using inventive cartography as a methodology, the study involved teachers, students, and researchers in reflecting on the impacts of this school subject, analyzing its implications on the formation of subjectivities aligned with neoliberal logic and individual protagonism. The article discusses how the life project operates as a control device, promoting the adaptation of students to market demands and reinforcing a cis-heteronormative and patriarchal model of subjectivation that excludes dissident bodies. Through six rhizomatic connections, the project points to the need for a more inclusive and emancipatory high school that values diversity and resists the impositions of neoliberal rationality. We conclude with an invitation for reflection: how can we imagine and build an education that is truly a practice of freedom and collective creation? These are the cartographic wagers for the becoming.

Keywords : Life Project; New High School; Cartography; Neoconservatism; Educational Neoliberalism..

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