ABSTRACT:
In a discursive approach to curriculum policy, based on Derrida and Laclau, we focus on the idea of context as a deconstructive power. We argue that a structural view of context tends to place knowledge as the structure of practice, with view to controlling the other. Therefore, unforeseen and unique possibilities of being and deciding are restricted to a way of being (and deciding) projected by some to all others and supposedly necessary to society. In defense of this argument, we have investigated the National Curricular Guidelines since 1998 and the National Curricular Common Base as cut outs of a broader text on policies for High School. We conclude by affirming that there are other possibilities of curriculum and context meaning that aim democratic horizons.
Keywords:
Context; Curriculum Policy; Deconstruction; Discourse; High School