Applied Humanities and Social Sciences in basic education: Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism and other (im)possible dialogues
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https://doi.org/10.4013/csu.2022.58.2.02Keywords:
Applied Humanities and Social Sciences, Curriculum, Basic education, Neoliberalism, Liberal MulticulturalismAbstract
Considering the recent changes in the Basic Education curriculum in Brazil, as well as its impacts on the production of the discourses present in the textbooks that form the collections of Applied Social and Human Sciences, we discuss the logics that organize contemporary modes of political subjectivation, at the intersection of two distinct discursive formations (neoliberalism and multiculturalism). Based on an analysis of 4 (four) contemporary textbooks, and in dialogue with contributions of post-structuralist discourse theory and elements of Foucauldian discourse analysis, the text discusses processes of equivalence and differentiation between those discursive formations, aiming to demonstrate the way in which neoliberal discourse seeks to instrumentalize the grammar of the social sciences and multiculturalism to constitute a form of political subjectivity marked by the desire for “symbolic reconciliation”, under the signs of “exchange”, “mixture” and “hybridization” of forms of being in the world.
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