Common National Curricular Base

A biopolitical and polyphonic analysis

Abstract

This article brings to the discussion two perspectives of discursive analysis that we propose as complementary and interrelated: the biopolitical view and the semantic-polyphonic view. Our proposal constitutes an experience of aproximation, keeping the theoretical differences, of Philosophy and Linguistic Semantics, applied to Education. Given the educational context of Brazil facing the implementation of the Common National Curricular Base, we prepared an analysis of the biopolitics and semantic-polyphonic purposes of BNCC. We start investigating the educational biopolitical context and, in sequence, submit the statements that express its objectives in the document to polyphonic description of meaning. Both axes of analysis aim to highlight what is presupposed and, therefore, not explicit in the speech of BNCC. After all, we think we have demonstrated how these two references that can be used in an integrated way, warning about the reading needs and the consequent understanding that transcends the limits of the manifest text and take the more or less veiled sayings of a document of substantial importance for education in contemporary Brazil.