O currículo na encruzilhada pós-moderna - um estudo de caso de uma escola pública paulistana / The curriculum in the post modern crossroad - a research in a São Paulos public school
AUTOR(ES)
Uira Fernandes
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
This work starts from the discussion presented by the post-modern thought before the rules of modernity and tries to investigate its relation with the educational theory and practice, and more specifically the school?s and its curriculum field. I tried to analyze how the post-modern way of thinking, the discourse and the condition can and/or may affect the curriculum and school life. For this, the research has studied a primary public school to analyze the multiple dimensions in school life and the actions, practices and discourses of different school members ? teachers, students, the principal, coordinators and school agents. Therefore, I aimed to reflect how the school and its curriculum are placed before the post-modern thought, discourse and conditions, and how the poststructural position can ?read? the phenomena of the school?s curriculum. According to the results of the research I tried to be aware of what the field and the school said, without losing track of what discussions were held between the different shades of the post-modern in education. The motto of ?learning to learn?, either as an ideology of the present capitalism, or as a dominant discursive form in the contemporary pedagogical scenario has showed itself to be present in practices and iscourses by different school members. On a second moment, I reflected how the working world and the citizenship intertwine with the school universe and its curriculum. I analyzed, therefore, the challenges and the advances that this school has achieved to develop, to implement a more democratic culture by means of its direction and to get closer of the community, binding through culture, sport, and knowledge. On the other hand, the social barriers imposed to the poorer tracts of society to provide social mobility and ascension ? though jobs, the access to consuming goods and the extension of student life up to college ? have become even greater as long as school is submitted to the neo-liberal logic of the Minimal State, to the maximization of the results with the minimum financial resources, to the devaluation of teachers, and a pedagogy rooted in learning to learn. On a third moment, I analyzed the contributions of the post-structural perspective, mainly of the Foucault line, for the understanding of the school curriculum. For this, I understood the curriculum as a cultural policy, as a place for dispute of certain narratives and for the ?right? to narrate the ?other?. The approach of these questions concerning the dialogue between the theory and the empirics was guided by the proposition of placing oneself critically before post-modernity. Either emphasizing its rapports that face certain rules of modernity and its dominating effects, like the universalism and the neutrality of reason and science, the discursive targets and the conception of the subject of self-centered knowledge present in the (critical) educational theories, or the need to point out the risk of adhering to the neo-liberal ideals of the present capitalism through pedagogical practices and educational policies, the object of this study was to reflect about some possible interconnections and relationships between the educational theory and practice and the post-modern when we focus on the school and its curriculum today. This study was based, among other authors, on Silva (1999, 1999b), Moreira (1994, 1997), Duarte (2001), Canário (1996), Foucault (2000) and Santos (1999).
ASSUNTO(S)
post-modernity modernidade teoria e prática do currículo. theory and practice of the curriculum. escola pós-modernidade school modernity
