CRITICAL CURRICULUM THEORIES GENESIS IN BRAZILIAN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT

Abstract

This text, that assumes bibliographic character, aims to delimit the Curriculum Critical Theories emergence in Brazil. It adopts, as a starting point, the postgraduate programs creation, during the Military Regime, occasion in which the technicist character, allied to the educational field, and specifically to the curriculum, softened by the greediness of the Dictatorship, suffers retaliations. During the second section The text dicusses the direction given to criticisms about the curriculum's role, due to the need for its articulation with political, economic and socio-cultural relations, during the New Republic early days. The third section points to the flourishing of critical theorizing about the curriculum still under New Republic conjuncture. The synthesis effort shows how the curriculum, in the mid-1980's, considers both the interests of conservative groups and progressive groups, thus reflecting the clash between them.