O Discurso da Base Nacional Comum Curricular: “Educação é a base”

Abstract

The Common National Curriculum Base (CNCB) had its final version promulgated in 2018, being presented as the result of great advances and defined as a “new era” for basic education in the country. Therefore, this dissertation aimed to analyze the CNCB's discourse, seeking to understand its meaning effects. For this, we were guided by the theoretical and methodological assumptions of the French Discourse Analysis (DA), affiliated with Michel Pêcheux. In DA it is understood that the language materializes the discourse, articulating its historical, social, cultural and ideological elements in its production, no discourse is born out of nothing, but from a work on other discourses, materializing to answer the needs posed by relations between men. Following this methodology, it was necessary to discuss the broad and strict production conditions of the CNCB's discourse, where we approach educational reforms in the 90's until the present day; we selected our research corpus, with nine discursive sequences taken from the official NCCB document; and we analyzed the CNCB discourse, where it was possible to understand that despite the innovative character that has been presented for this document, what would be underway would be the use of basic education to meet the new demands of capital, since private initiative institutions and international organizations played an important role in the process of elaborating and implementing the CNCB, seeking to establish human training in basic education aimed at the world of work. This dissertation is the result of investigations carried out in the research group: Public Policies, History and Discourse of the Graduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Alagoas and through it we seek to enable basic education professionals to critically read this document.