REACTION OF TEACHERS AT THE FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF RIO DE JANEIRO TO THE HIGH SCHOOL COUNTER-REFORM
High School. Educational Reforms. Federal Education Network – Brazil. Teachers Movement. Basic Education Curriculum.
Immersed in an organic crisis since the 1970s, the capital demonstrates flagrant conditioning in maintaining its accumulation bases, which leads it to promote a broad offensive in the structural and superstructural field of the social mode of production and reproduction of material life in search of renewal of the objective and subjective conditions of wealth accumulation, which configures broad process of bourgeois recompositing. This recompositing encompasses all spheres of social life, including public policies for human development, which involves the propositions of a “New High School”. The most recent transformation in this field stems from the enactment of Law nº 13.415/2017 and the institution of the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), regulatory frameworks of the capital strategy to train new types of workers, in order to meet business demands, as well as conform ethics and morally civil society. In this process, one can see the articulation of propositions to guarantee a lean and flexible basic training, pragmatic and immediate teaching and learning methods, and teacher training in tune with the complexity and volatility of life in post-modernity. Based on this reality, the reaction of teachers at the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro (IFRJ) to the counter-reform of secondary education was chosen as the object of analysis. The objective is to explain the nature of the reactions of IFRJ teachers to the bourgeois offensive in the educational field that implied the counter-reform of High School and the BNCC/2018. This is a basic research of explanatory character, based on historical-dialectical materialism, which falls under the category of documentary research, although it uses semi-structured interviews. The analysis showed that supranational organizations, the Brazilian State and the business community defined management reforms in Basic Education, as well as seeking to promote reconfigurations in the curriculum, in the teaching and learning method and in teacher training, which established the bases of political support and pedagogy of the high school counter-reform. However, resistance to this counter-reform is perceived by private apparatuses of hegemony in defense of public and free education formed by students and teachers, especially against the changes that came to be designated by the insignia “New Secondary School”. It was also found that found that IFRJ professors are disjointed and politically disaggregated, so that resistance to the counter-reform of Secondary Education in this institution is timid. Although the data show occasional reactions to the counter-reform, active consent to it predominates. It is concluded that the lack of resistance on the part of the IFRJ professors contributes to the construction of consensus around the counter-reform of Secondary Education in civil society, as well as weakens these professionals in the construction of alternatives that minimize losses caused in the access of the working class to the accumulated scientific and technological knowledge.