Implementation of the New High School in the State of Acre: the Experience of Pilot Schools
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5335/rep.v30i0.14343Keywords:
Educational Policies; Law no. 13.415/17; High School Reform; Recontextualization.Abstract
ABSTRACT
In this article, we analyze the first steps of the New High School Reform implementation in the state of Acre based on the experience of pilot schools. This field research involved the application of questionnaires and interviews with managers, educational and pedagogical coordinators, and teachers. The interpretation and analysis of the data were based on the theoretical framework provided by Basil Bernstein’s (1996; 2003) formulations regarding the recontextualization movement. By “recontextualization” we mean the process of appropriation of the reform’s official documents by school subjects who decontextualize their content, attributing additional meanings to them and producing new discursive and pedagogical practices, distinct from the initial proposals in some cases. The categories applied to data analysis were “curricular flexibility”, “youth protagonism”, “life project”, “entrepreneurship” and “public-private relationship”, defined from the reading of the national normative documents of the High School Reform. The results reveal the existence of recontextualization movements regarding the propositions in the reform's national normative documents by pilot school subjects who attribute their own interpretation to the purposes, meanings, orientations, and prescriptions of these documents.
