LIFE PROJECT AND HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION: AN ANALYSIS OF THE BRAZILIAN CURRICULAR PRESCRIPTION OF THE EDUCATION NETWORKS OF THE STATES AND THE FEDERAL DISTRICT (2017-2022)
Life Project. Curriculum. High school. Critical Curriculum Theory. Education.
The object of study of this thesis is the curricular inclusion of the Life Project in Basic Education, focusing on the Secondary School stage. This investigation values the curricular field as an adequate territory to guide, give autonomy and provide integral human formation to students, prompting them to discuss life projects. With the enactment of Law nº. 13,415/2017, high school curricula began to introduce work aimed at building students' life projects. Furthermore, with the institution of the National Common Curricular Base, one of the general skills to be trained by students is directly related to the theme. In the light of the critical-dialectic approach and the critical curriculum theory, this study is guided by the question: How has the curricularization of the Life Project in Secondary Education developed in Brazil, especially in the Federal District? The objective of this investigation is to analyze the format in which the Life Project pedagogical strategy has been inserted in the high school curricula of the Education Departments in the country, especially in the Federal District. The methodology employed combines bibliographic research and documentary research, in regulations, pedagogical documents and curricula. This thesis indicates that, although the main option of the States and the Federal District has been the curricularization of the Life Project in the format of a curricular unit, configuring it as an integrative structuring axis is the curricular option most adequate to the curricular critical perspective, as it enables that all curricular components, cross-cutting themes and other curricular devices revolve around this element.