The Influences of Neoliberalism on the National Common Curricular Base and the Challenges to Rural Education in the Amazon

Abstract

This study analyzes the influences of neoliberalism on the Brazilian National Common Curriculum Base (BNCC) and its impacts on Rural Education (Educação do Campo) in the Amazon. Methodologically, a theoretical-documental analysis grounded in Historical-Dialectical Materialism was adopted. The study included an examination of the BNCC’s introduction and pedagogical foundations, along with an essay-style bibliographic review on neoliberalism and Rural Education, which made it possible to apprehend the contradictions and mediations present in the curriculum. The results show that the imposition of a standardized curricular model reinforces the depoliticization of rural schools, disregarding the historical struggles of workers and their demands for social justice, land, and culture. Therefore, by consolidating a neoliberal educational project, the BNCC reaffirms the role of the school as an instrument of functional adaptation to capital, shaping subjects who conform to the prevailing social order, marked by individualistic and competitive perspectives, and distanced from collective protagonism and class consciousness in the territories of Waters, Lands, and Forests.