National Common Curricular Base: Historical Perspectives and Possible Impacts on Physics Teaching
Physics teaching; National Common Curricular Base (BNCC); New Secondary Education
This paper presents an analysis of the Common National Curriculum Base (BNCC), together with the New Upper Secondary Education Reform, from a historical perspective, with emphasis on its implications for the teaching of Physics. The methodology adopted is bibliographic in nature. The following topics are addressed: the history of the creation of the BNCC, its political context, and the social actors involved, with particular attention to the influence of the third sector in this process; the New Upper Secondary Education Reform, contextualized within Brazil’s historical tendency to treat upper secondary education (secondary education) in a dual manner — that is, either as preparatory for higher education or as vocational training; a brief historical overview of science education in Brazil, from the Jesuits to the 1996 National Education Guidelines and Framework Law (LDB); and an analysis of the BNCC and the New Upper Secondary Education Reform from the perspective that both represent a setback for Brazilian education, especially for science education, with an emphasis on the teaching of Physics. We argue that both constitute a setback because they are a centralized curricular project that accentuates inequalities and impoverishes general basic education by fragmenting it into pathways that dilute and distort the subjects of the Natural Sciences area, with particular attention to Physics. As a result of the research, we created an ebook bearing the same title as the dissertation, in which the content is presented in a question-and-answer format, targeting undergraduate students in Natural Sciences teacher-training programs and teachers in these fields.