We have composed a map of discursive scenarios that permeate the production of Brazilian academic articles in journals and conferences, theses and dissertations. In this exercise, it was possible to see how experimental classes are traversed by the discourses of modern science, psychological, behaviorist, the active method, progress in science, constructivist science dialectic, teacher researcher, interactionism, critical pedagogy, educational technology and cultural studies. We argue that there are many discursive scenarios in the relations of power and knowledge, built during Brazilian academic production, competing and organizing to compose a narrative of life for the experimental curriculum. In certain phases, through captions and photos, this invents characteristics of rationality, neutrality, empiricism, and objectivity. In others, it defines play, technology and citizenship as scenography elements.
Science teaching; Academic production; Discourse; Experimentation