A contrarreforma do Ensino Médio e as perdas de direitos sociais no Brasil

Abstract

This article seeks to identify, describe and analyze the processes and effects of the High School counter-reform, regulated by the law 13.415/17, and its loss of social rights, especially for the Brazilian youth. The High School in Brazil, last level of compulsory education, has suffered many reforms proposed by the Federal or states governments in the last two decades. By studying the law 13.415/17, in this article we initially focused on the analysis of the counter-reform effects on the school subjects. After that, we examined the curricular structure proposal and the National Curriculum Common Core for the High School. The argument is that the flexibility proposed in the curriculum simplifies the purpose of the compulsory education to the preparation for the labor market, restricts and reduces the offer, increases the educational inequalities and can justify legally the public schools privatization. The conclusion is that the counter-reform represents a coup against the Brazilian education, because it doesn’t consider the characteristics of the current High School (the teacher’s labor conditions and the infrastructure of the schools), the achievements and orientations in the Educational National Plan (2014 – 2024), the subjects’ experiences and knowledge and the researches that had been developed about the theme. The use of the concept “counter-reform” strengthens the analysis of the regressive processes regarding social rights when considering this initiative.