The Common National Curriculum and training itineraries in secondary education

reflections on the state school system of Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

The Common National Curriculum Base (BNCC) is presented in the context of national education as a document that establishes the learning considered essential and that all Brazilian students must develop throughout basic education. From this perspective, training itineraries were introduced as a way of making the High School curriculum more flexible, based on the idea that students have the option of choosing specific areas in order to direct/deepen their studies. Thus observed, the objective of the present study is to problematize the issue of the curriculum for the New Secondary Education outlined by the BNCC based on the training itineraries, taking as a sample, the regulations drawn up by the state Department of Education for the State Network of Education in Mato Grosso do Sul (REE-MS). To this end, the research is guided by theoretical-bibliographical and documentary research, supported by a qualitative analysis of the aspects that make up the legal measures taken for the stage in question from national to state. Given the study developed, it is possible to infer that the curriculum goes beyond the formal aspect and is expressed through practice and experience. The curriculum has long ceased to be seen from a purely technical perspective, that is, involving only issues of procedures, techniques and methods. In the case of REE-MS, we identified a vertically imposed implementation movement of the BNCC guidelines, disregarding specific regional characteristics, but with close adherence to the guidelines' intentions of an idea of a single national/state curriculum.