A Base Nacional Comum Curricular no Brasil contemporâneo: uma análise documental à luz da teoria crítica de Adorno

Abstract

In recent years, a significant far-right political phenomenon has emerged in Brazilian society, in particular, in the sphere of Basic Education, sparking controversies in school communities and in the field of Education research. We particularly note that the outcome of the preparation of the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC), published in 2017, occurred at the dawn of the political and particularly educational experience that we then put on screen. Given this situation, we carried out an analysis of the document that establishes the essential learning of students during Basic Education throughout the country: the BNCC. We investigated precisely whether the official set of guidelines for school practices carried out by the teaching staff, towards children and adolescents, is based on a perspective considered emancipatory, within the contours of the conceptual framework offered by Theodor Adorno's critical theory, due to his concern with the theme of emancipation in the educational sphere. In conclusion, we highlight that the emerging social forces of neoliberalism and Brazilian fascism guided the production – and not a determination – of the pedagogical guidelines that currently prescribe what should be taught to youth in the teaching profession in public and private schools in the country.