“A carefully tidied hair to wear the beret” Interfaces between disciplining and curricular policies Interfaces entre disciplinamento e políticas curriculares

Abstract

present an analysis aiming to problematize the meanings of ‘disciplining’ linked to curricular policies for the purpose of a supposed quality of teaching-learning, in the contemporary school context in Brazil. It is a discussion focused on public school’s militarization, which has increased in several countries. Based on the analysis of teachers’ and students’ narratives from schools in the states of Pernambuco and Bahia/Brazil, I oppose the aforementioned link and defend discussions about the emergence of the meanings of radical democracy − pluralist and agonistic −, taking place within this institution. In the light of post-structuralist studies, with an emphasis on discursiveness, this essay seeks to reiterate the power of social relations in the context of school curriculum practice as mobilizers for thinking about difference in an unavoidable flow within a school. A defense of the school space as a space-time open to subjectivation processes, in multiple performances, contradicting, in this way, the attempts to standardize a rational consensus and the subjects/bodies that circulate in the school.