- Research Article
- 10.35786/1645-1384.v26.2356
O Ensino Médio Brasileiro no Conflito das Racionalidades
- Jan 01, 2026
- Curriculo sem Fronteiras
- Martin Kuhn + 1 more +1
In a social context dominated by neoliberal rationality, it seems coherent to adjust education to the demands of the market and to prepare individuals for it.The text exposes the forms of rationality in the 2016 High School counter-reform: instrumental reason and hermeneutic-humanist reason, interconnected, serving the hegemonic interests in the contemporary stage of capitalist accumulation.The question arises: what rationality guided the 2016 high school counter-reform?There are indications of the articulation of the two aforementioned forms of reasoning in this reform, in the competencies of the National Common Curricular Base, as well as in its partial continuity in Law 14.945/2024.This is a theoretical and documentary reflection with contributions from the sociology of education, committed to the project of education for democratic citizenship.It is structured in two movements: a retrospective look at the relationship between society, individual and education and a critical position for curriculum policies (BNCC) and the New High School.
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