CURRICULAR REFORM IN PUBLIC EDUCATION IN HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL, MEXICO

discourse analysis

Abstract

This article represents an advance of the research made in the studies of Doctor’s degree in Psychology and Education in the Autonomous University of Queretaro, México. In the first part Dimensión de antecedentes-elementos de análisis (Dimension of background elements of analysis) we find a brief description of changes that have occurred in education in the last ten years derived from the neoliberal model, some institutional discourses are quoted and try to fundament these changes. Dimensión teórico-metodológica (Theoretical-Methodological Dimension) defines some theoretical perspectives which are taken from the social-psychology dimension intended for the discourse analysis of the groups being observed. Some concepts are considered, such as subjectivity, power, knowledge, “social imaginary”. Emphasized are the type and goals of the research which is intended to be constructed and the methodological position of the investigator.