EDUCATION AND GEOGRAPHY BETWEEN CHANGES AND UNCERTAINTIES: REFORM OF MIDDLE SCHOOL IN BRAZIL IMPOSED BY FEDERAL LAW 13.415/17

Abstract

This work emerges amid the insecurities triggered by the Brazilian high school reform. Instigated by reflections derived from the teaching practice and the master's course, this one proposes to reflect on the process inaugurated by Provisional Measure (MP) number 746/16, transformed into Federal Law number 13.415/17. In a synthetic way, the aforementioned reform makes the high school curriculum flexible by creating a training itinerary, a training area chosen by the student. Analyzing this law, the main changes and the hazy aspects that still exist about its application will be presented. Based on bibliographies inherent to the functions and objectives of secondary education and on quantitative data on the relevant variables, it is intended to counteract the reform of the revealed framework. The paper is structured in three parts: the exposition of the main points of alteration of the High School from the reform; based on data on the infrastructural reality of our educational units and on the socioeconomic background of the secondary school students, some reflections on the causes of school drop-out are made, and this will be counter to what is present in the reform process; then goes on to concluding remarks. This work, without the pretension of exhausting the debate on the subject, will seek to highlight positive and negative aspects and to gather data that collaborate for the discussion about the reform of secondary education and the situation of geography in the high school curriculum in the face of this reform.