INVERTING THE CURRICULUM VECTOR: FREIRE’S CURRICULAR REORIENTATION MOVEMENT AT THE CENTER OF THE DEBATE

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to present the partial results of our research on the Curricular Reorientation Movement proposed by the educator Paulo Freire while he was at the head of the São Paulo Municipal Education Department during the administration of Mayor Luiza Erundina, from the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Worker Party), from 1989 to 1992. In this sense, we present the signs and evidence identified on our analysis as capable of assisting the proposition of public curriculum policies. More in detail, we study these elements from the perspective enunciated by researchers of the field, such as Barreto (1995), Moreira (2000) and Saul e Silva (2011), that is, as a paradigmatic rupture movement with previous official policies of curriculum, implemented in São Paulo and throughout the national territory. We are dealing, therefore, with the movement under analysis as an inversion of the vector of curricular policy that intends, not only on the local realities of schools, to elaborate not only practices, but also theoretical subsidies for reflection on actual practices. In addition to highlighting the currency of such practices and policies, developed under the principles of critical pedagogy, we consider the relevance of using them as subsidies to analyze and criticize current curricular policies.