The Implementation of Brazil's Base Nacional Comum Curricular: Promise and Challenge With Brazil's Common Core

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

For the first time in its history, Brazil is implementing federally mandated academic standards, the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), Brazil’s Common Core. We are currently engaged in a five-year study of the BNCC implementation that includes hundreds of interviews with national, state, and municipal officials, union leaders, university and public school faculty and staff, third-sector representatives, as well as observations of classrooms and schools. The interactive panel session we propose will begin with a general introduction to the BNCC and a short description of our five-year study. Authors will then present four papers touching on topics central to implementation, followed by comments from two internationally recognized discussants. We will then open the floor for questions and discussion.

Sub Unit

• SIG-International Studies

Chair

• Douglas Ready, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Coalitions' Strategies and Resources to Create and Oppose a Curricular Education Reform in Brazil - Danilo da Silva, Teachers College, Columbia University

• The Crucial and Long-Term Value of Teacher Training in Improving Education in Brazil - Anna Moyer, Vanderbilt University; Carolina Oliveira Campos, Consortium for Policy Research in Education

• Coalition Strategies and Resources to Create and Oppose a Curricular Education Reform in Brazil - Leana Cabral, Teachers College, Columbia University; Isabel Linacre, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Federalism and the Execution of Coherent Education Policy: The Case of Brazil's Common Core - Iris Daruwala, Teachers College, Columbia University; Filomena Siqueira, Teachers College, Columbia University; Douglas Ready, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussants

• Mariana Souto-Manning, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Paula Louzano, Universidad Diego Portales