As políticas curriculares no Brasil: trajetória da década de 1990

Abstract

This monograph focuses on educational and curriculum policies history in Brazil aiming to map the historic path of curriculum policy along 1990 decade. This monograph is a documental research where the document is understood as a systematical element discursively permeated and in which the state expresses how education is conceived and organized in a country. In this work we analyzed the following documents: World Declaration on Education for All (Jomtien, 1990), New Delhi Declaration (1993), Brazilian Basis and Guidelines for Education (Law 9.394/96 - Brazil), Decanal “Education for All” Plan (1993-2003), Brazilian Education Curriculum Parameters (for Basic Education). Curricular policies under the period studied show a link with the international conferences of which Brazil became signatory as the World Declaration on Education for All and the New Delhi Declaration. Aiming a thriving global organization, was necessary the imposition of a deep restructuration in education so that the country could be aligned, as stressed by the World Declaration on Education for All. This restructuring introduced market logic in education and it can be inferred clearly in the documents analyzed. Education, thereafter, is systematized in order to assist the economic development considering its social function. In this perspective, was built the education national curriculum guided under the following aspects: give to education a new guise, adapting it to the formation of a certain profile of the subject, although this ideal has not in fact be effected in real; invest in education based on training, flexibility and citizenship, i.e., develop with the students the skills and expertise to work in a technological and paradigmatic changing world. Thus the curriculum, designed from the 90ies, brings in its core meeting the needs of the economy, society and cultural practices.