The “new” high school reform in Goiás: the course of the pathways is the limitation of education

Abstract

The text analyzes the perspective of high school education from the State Department of Education of Goiás – SEDUC/GO, as expressed in the Curricular Document for Goiás – High School (DCGO-EM). Its main objective is to understand the organization of pedagogical work projected for high schools in Goiás. Between 2019 and 2021, SEDUC/GO developed new guidelines for basic education, with a special focus on restructuring high school, which is now organized in accordance with the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC). This article, based on bibliographical research and Content Analysis of the Curricular Document for Goiás, seeks to present how the counter-reform “New” High School is assimilated and the sense of education projected in the text and context of Goiás. The analytical path of the document under investigation uses categories such as work, work-education, and revolution/restoration as fundamental mediations for dialogue. The research highlights a High School project biased by the interests of large economic-business groups, by the breakdown of the general basic education principle, the privileging of certain curricular components, the restriction of the possibilities of choices and dialogue, and the uncritical affirmation of managerial quality ideology.