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New high school curriculum may be inspired by the Enem

17/08/2012

 


Brasilia - After disclosure of the results of inadequate secondary schools in the latest edition of the Index of Basic Education Development (Ideb), the Ministry of Education (MEC) is planning a modernization of the curriculum, proposing the integration of various disciplines in large areas. The inspiration must come from their own National Secondary Education Examination (Enem), which organizes the curriculum matrices into four major groups: languages, mathematics, humanities and nature. This is the division that follows the race, unlike the traditional model for disciplines such as chemistry, Portuguese, mathematics and biology.

The debate is not new: Last year, the National Education Council (CNE) approved the new school curriculum guidelines that propose a loosening of the current format. The diagnosis is that the high school curriculum is very swollen - on average are 13 disciplines - which, in the evaluation of the Secretary of Basic Education MEC, César Callegari, impairs learning. "The Enem is an important reference, but it is not the curriculum, it evaluates the curriculum. But he brings news that have been well assimilated by the schools, "says the secretary.

According to Callegari, the idea is to propose a complement to the guidelines approved by the CNE, organizing the different disciplines in large areas. "What has to be clear is that we are not proposing the elimination of disciplines, but a coordinated integration of curricular components of high school in four areas of knowledge instead of the fractionation that occurs today," he explains.

Next week, Mercadante Minister meets with the secretaries of Education in order to discuss the ways to articulate the change. An action has been taken to induce the modernization of the curricula. According to Callegari, the next purchase of textbooks for high school will give priority to works that are organized in this format. The announcement is already being prepared. The MEC has a program that distributes books to all schools and the next shipment will be for the academic year 2015 - the works are renewed every three years.

For the Secretary of Education of the Espirito Santo, Klinger Barbosa Alves, one of the explanations for the poor results of the stage in different indicators, in addition to Ideb, is the organizational structure of the school which is based on preparation for college entrance exams and has little attractiveness for the design of teenage life.

"The vision that the school is to train people to go to college does not apply to reality for many. Young people have different economic and social needs. There is pressure for some young people join the labor market and then enter the college as a second chance, "said Alves, who is vice president of the National Council of Education Secretaries (Consed).

The Secretary of the Holy Spirit, one of the states in which the note of Ideb fell from 2009 to 2011, supports a model school that dialogues with the different needs of students and include preparation for the world of work, since for many entry into the university may not be on the list of priorities.

For the school to cover this diverse background - including learning the curriculum components, articulation with the world of work and civic education - Callegari argues that it is essential to increase the number of hours that the student remains in school, walking to the model of full-time.

"We are aware that the content and skills that students need to develop no longer fit in a narrow format of three or four hours per day. So it is with full-time teaching that countries with a good level of quality of teaching they do, "he says.



Source: Agency Brazil

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