ABSTRACT:
This article brings to light the contributions of the Brazilian educator Dermeval Saviani to the curriculum’s field. To do so, we did a bibliographical research, rescuing Saviani’s Marxist principles in his work, articulating them to the curriculum’s field against the background of knowledge theme. The paper also uses Saviani commentators to present a more complete and diverse analysis. Rescuing Saviani’s contributions to the curriculum is important at a time when the field moves away from the knowledge theme (MOREIRA, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2012) by prioritizing articulations with the culture under a sharply post-structuralist bias. Thus, the conceptions of Dermeval Saviani remain current and controversial to the field, because they defend a conception of knowledge that embraces principles of universality and prioritizes the curriculum’s necessity as a vector of transmission of knowledge considered as patrimony of humanity.
Keywords:
Curriculum; Dermeval Saviani; Knowledge