Neoliberal Normativity and Curriculum Policies in America: Brazil, Chile, Mexico and the United States

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

The symposium focuses on recent curriculum policies held by 4 different countries in America: Brazil, Chile, Mexico and USA. The authors assume the possibility of speaking of a global context in which such policies are produced as neoliberal. Papers here look at national policies highlighting: (a) ways in which neoliberal demands are enacted in specific national contexts, producing deferred meanings; (b) unpredictable effects of policies when enacted in school communities; and (c) the participation of academic communities, with their demands, in the production of the so-called official texts. With this, symposium participants intend to offer a complex picture of the so-called centralized, national or even official policies.

Sub Unit

• Americas Education Research Network

Chair

• Maria Luiza Süssekind, federal university of rio de janeiro state unirio

Papers

• National Curriculum in Brazil: Mapping Networks - Elizabeth F. Macedo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; Rita de Cássia Frangella, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

• The Unpredictability of Neoliberalism: U.S. Curricular Currents Re-channeled - Mary Newbery, Quinnipiac University

• Curricular Centralization and Curricular Innovations: Tensions and Paradoxes - Concepción Barrón, Universidad Autónoma do Mexico

• Some Notes on Curriculum Centralization in Chile - Daniel Fernando Johnson Mardones, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Discussant

• Maria Luiza Süssekind, federal university of rio de janeiro state unirio