CHANGES ON CURRICULUM POLICIES FOR HIGH SCHOOL IN BRAZIL: REPERCUSSION OF BNCCEM AT MINAS GERAIS STATE CURRICULUM

Abstract

This paper results from a masters’ dissertation concluded in 2018 and integrates the research entitled: “National Professional Minimum Wage at Brazil: incidences about income, career and union action”, carried out with funding of Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG), Notice n.2/2016 – Programa Pesquisador Mineiro – PPM X. Founded in literature and documentary review, the paper sought to analyse the set of curriculum policies addressing high school at national level, in the period from 1990 to 2018 and its expression at Minas Gerais State Education System. For such it seeks to apprehend the definitions of Law n. 13.415/2017, of Curricular Basis for that level of education, and of the document entitled “Minas Gerais Reference Curriculum”, approved at the end of 2020. The expectation is to present elements for the analysis of the repercussion of the high school reform in Brazil and specifically in the state of Minas Gerais. The evidences point out that new configurations addressed to the last stage of fundamental education converge to an education deprived of critical sense and aimed at the application of content by means of a list of competences and skills. The flexibilization discourse is resumed in the definition of educational trajectories, emphasizing the self-management as a key element to understand the economical requirements, and there is a strong tendency for privatization of high school by means of partnerships with private sector for offering those trajectories, as well as the possibility of implementation of public schools with private management, as has been studied by Minas Gerais Government.