The expression traveling policies is coined by Lindblad and Popkewitz to refer to concepts that circulate internationally in educational reforms as a result of processes of globalization. The objective of this paper is to present some of these concepts in many different countries, analyze how, in Brazil, the National Guidelines for Language and Literature Programs are equally in agreement with these policies and what their implications for the language teacher education are. Meanwhile, it will be argued that these traveling policies are ambivalent and can be seen as processes of deregulation and privatization of tasks and duties due to times of liquid modernity.
Traveling policies; guidelines; postmodernity; ambivalence; globalization