HIGH SCHOOL IN CHILE AND BRAZIL: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF REFORMS AND IMPLEMENTATION PROPOSALS BASED ON CURRENT LEGISLATION
Public Policies in Education; Comparative Education; High School; Chile; Brazil
This research is linked to the research line Comparative Studies in Education (Ecoe), of the Graduate Program in Education (PPGE), of the Faculty of Education (FE), of the University of Brasília (UnB), and was developed within the scope of the Research Group Generations and Youth (Geraju). The purpose is to understand how the discourses in the legislation of the latest Chilean and Brazilian high school (EM) reform are presented regarding their organization and implementation. Based on the analysis of documents, this research is organized around two axes: 1) Analysis of the context that triggered the reform, and 2) Analysis of normative documents that define the structural and curricular reforms of Chilean and Brazilian high schools. The theoretical framework is situated in the field of Comparative Education, based on the assumption of the right to education and that the last stage of compulsory education is an important tool for the education of young people as subjects of rights. The textual data was interpreted based on hermeneutic content analysis, a combination of methods anchored in qualitative content analysis and hermeneutics. The results show that high school reinforces the importance of the right to education when it is configured as a stage for the education of young people as subjects of rights. The discourses presented in the norms reflect the intentionality of the legislator regarding its goals and purposes. The context that permeates the conjuncture, thus fulfills the social, cultural, political, and economic functions of high school education.