O currículo do município de Cascavel e da Região Oeste do Paraná e as políticas nacionais de educação da década de 1990

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the mediations, positions and contradictions presented among the assumptions which guide the curriculum selected by the Municipal General Office of Education of Cascavel (SEMED) and by the Association of Municipalities of Western Paraná (AMOP) with the theoretical and ideological assumptions set at the event of the Basic Education Reform in the 1990s expressed in the National Curriculum Guidelines and in the National Curriculum Parameters. When it comes to the development of the analysis, the social, political, economic and ideological chances in the capitalist society at the end of the twentieth century are considered with the intention to point out that these changes do not mean some kind of rapture, they are seen as an effect descendant from the capacity of the capitalism reorganization. In the course of research developing, it was brought out that these social changes are found in the globalization ideology and in the post-modernity ideology. In this changing context, without the rapture from the capitalist society of, are engendered the State reforms, the Education reforms and the School Curriculum reforms which have been implemented in Brazil since the 1990s. Regarding both the Education and the School Curriculum reform, this survey seeks to present elements which prove that these movements result from the Estate reform, and simultaneously, they give sustentation to the body politic, for the justification presented at the scope of the Reform is that a new society requires a new man and a new education, therefore, a new curriculum. It is believed that the Reform process implemented in Brazil is full of ideological objectives, intending to promote respect to differences, to tolerance and to pluralism, in order to protect, from any criticism, a society model established from exploration. However, this does not occur in a harmonious way, once the contradictory interests found in society come about with the intention of alternatives to the hegemonic thinking of the group who detain the material power. In doing so, the construction process, as well as the theoretical assumptions from two curricular proposals are shown, once they aim at showing in a critical and counter-hegemonic manner and, also, at focusing on the dialectical historical materialism assumptions; these are the Western Paraná Public School Curriculum (2007), created under AMOP coordination, and the Curriculum for Public Schools in the Municipality of Cascavel (2008), which was elaborated by the Municipal General Office of Education. With the analysis of both proposals, it is thought to investigate the possible mediations, positions and contradictions established with the theoretical and ideological assumptions expressed in the National Curriculum Guidelines and in the National Curriculum Parameters.