"Training for work": The influence of the Reform of Secondary Education in the texts of the Brazilian National Common Core
The Brazilian Reform of Secondary Education, sanctioned in 2017, brings to the agenda of the national public debate the project - not so new - of a vocational secondary school that reorganizes the final years of basic education in training routes, including technical vocational training to a common core of more general formation. The Reform seeks to justify the importance of the access of youth to the world of work, which is the subject of great controversy in the literature on education and youth. If, on the one hand, some studies indicate the work of school-age youth as a place for personal fulfillment and complementation of family income, others point out its negative effects on the follow-up of studies and, in many cases, youth work as the cause of dropping out of school. Still, the Reform of Secondary Education seems attractive to many educational actors who argue that the organization of High School should, in fact, be more linked to training for work. This project proposes an investigation about the "training for work" in the introductory texts and of the Natural Sciences (Chemistry, Physics and Biology) of the High School from the different versions of the National Curricular Common Base (BNCC), marking with analyzes of the Parameters National Curricula for High School (PCNEM). From this vast database was consolidated textual corpora, analyzed with the help of software IRaMuTeQ. It was analyzed how the official documents are adhered to the narrative of the High School vocation that the Reform has advocated, considering that the proclaimed advantages of the Reformation in the field of technical vocational training have as counterpart the reduction of the curriculum of Sciences (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) of the Brazilian High School.