O antigo discurso do novo ensino médio na tela: memória e silenciamento

Abstract

The objective of this research is to analyze the discourse of the Brazilian New High School (Novo Ensino Médio) conveyed to the population through governmental advertisements. Those announcements are shown on mainstream free-to-air television channels in Brazil. This research is done based on the Peuchetian discourse analysis with a Lukacsian and Bakhtinian theoretical dialogue and, therefore, guided by historical-dialectical materialism. One of the central results that this dissertation points out is that the discourse of New High School is not new. It is already born old, because it is the materialization of the old discourse of dualist education that endorses the bourgeois project for the maintenance of class society in Brazil. Thus, the old discourse of the New High School triggers a discursive memory that refers us to other educational reforms that, in certain moments of Brazilian history, proposed a similar materiality. Consequently, this discourse is essentially a political discourse ideologically inscribed in the capitalist mode of production that tries to silence and harmonize the class struggle to maintain the status quo of capital in Brazil. So, it works as a political strategy of the Brazilian economic elites to preserve the bourgeois sociability model with the growing exploitation of labor by the capital, of the proletariat by the industrial/business bourgeoisie.