School without party, curriculum ideologies and Didaktik: deciphering discourses (Escola sem Partido, ideologias curriculares e didática: decifrando discursos)

Abstract

Since the Brazilian educational system was erected, several different social groups and movements tried to influence the direction of the national curriculum and teachers' practices. This article aims to explore the main ideas of the school without party, a movement in Brazil that upholds the idea of public schools free of ideological influence. The supporters of this movement allege school teachers, especially the ones from the fields of social sciences and humanities, take advantage of the captive audience of learners to indoctrinate them with Marxist, feminist and other supposedly left-wing ideologies. Drawing from Schiro’s (2013) discussions on curriculum ideologies and from the German and Nordic Didaktik tradition, I examine school without party’s website, the bill 867/2015 that implements their programme and an article published by one of the founders of the movement in a local newspaper during the discussion of the Common National Curriculum Frameworks (BNCC). With this article, I plan to point out the importance of examining the relationship between schooling and social movements through analysis of changes proposed in school's curricula by the school without party.