O Documento Curricular para Goiás – Etapa Ensino Médio e a centralidade nas competências linguísticas como mote das reformas

Abstract

This research is part of the field of educational policies, specifically the subfield of curricular policies, with the curriculum for teaching Portuguese as its main corpus. This is historicaldocumentary research, which has as its object of analysis the Bimestralization of the components of Basic General Education and the Training Itineraries of the Documento Curricular para Goiás – Etapa Ensino Médio (DC-GOEM). The sequential organization of the contents, skills and learning objectives set out in the documents is problematized according to the critical theory of the curriculum, based on authors such as Apple (1982; 2000; 2003), Laval (2004) and Dardot and Laval (2016), seeking to highlight the relationships between the changes defined from the process of homogenization and flexibility of subjectivities as a driving force for the development of neoliberal rationality, more suited to the needs of the market in contemporary times. We also used authors from the field of critical education, namely, Ramos (2001; 2010; 2017), Kuenzer (1991; 2000; 2007) and Frigotto, Ciavatta and Ramos (2005), to describe the progress and nuances of this process in the Brazilian context, relating, as supported by authors such as Pochmann (2017), Dourado (2007; 2010; 2019), Cury (2002; 2018) and Saviani (2013a; 2013b; 2016), the educational reform to national and international macroeconomic changes. Considering the specificity of the approach to teaching Portuguese, we turn to authors such as Calvet (2002; 2007), Bourdieu (1977; 2011), Oliveira (2007; 2016) and Pratt (2013), in order to understand the centrality given to the broad area of languages in the new curriculum, recognizing the acquisition and development of linguistic skills as the main instrument for constructing subjects, and, therefore, subjectivities.