Implications of neoliberal rationality in the new high school curriculum of Santa Catarina: in defense of democratic sustainability
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https://doi.org/10.15536/reducarmais.10.2026.4390Keywords:
Sustainability;, Democracy, Educational Policies, Neoliberalism, SubjectivationAbstract
This article aims to analyze Santa Catarina's New High School, implemented in 2021, from the perspective of democratic sustainability. To this end, we analyzed the meaning of two signifiers–"resilience" and "flexibility"–in the context of the new public curriculum policy. The reflection begins with the notion of democratic sustainability, according to which the educational institution can function as a device for the production of subjectivities focused on the collective and the common. More than a set of formal guarantees for public participation, this notion of sustainability, in the particular way it seeks to articulate here, develops in everyday practices from which new shared meanings can emerge. The methodology adopted is documentary research with a theoretical framework based on post-structuralist authors, including: Foucault (2008), Rancière (1996) and Dardot and Laval (2016). It is considered that the analyzed document mobilizes signifiers of a grammar aligned with neoliberal rationality, with the objective of producing, in the subjects, a disposition of friendliness towards the market.
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