Fourteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences

Abstract

This paper analyses the educational reforms as part of a state reform in which Brazil gained sharper contours from the 1990s, especially on Cardoso´s government (1995-2002). These reforms aimed to redefine the pedagogic principles of Brazilian Basic Education shifting the qualification-driven teaching to the competences-driven teaching. Taking as empirical reference the political and pedagogical consequences of the State Decree nº 42.793/2011, that implemented a curriculum organized by skills in the Public Teaching System of Rio de Janeiro State, we seek to explain how this pedagogical perspective intented to promote a pragmatic, immediatist, and fragmentary conception of human training, to prepare the labor force to the new reality of structural unemployment, in the context of organic capital crisis, started from 1970´s. Our analysis shows that the management actions resulting from the State Decree in the Public Teaching System of Rio de Janeiro State materialize the strategy of the capital in the educational field to train a new type of workers to deal naturally with the precariousness of life and of job in the current stage of capitalism.