But anyway, who is this subject? Ethical-political dilemmas, conceptions of democracy and the subjects of learning in the BNCC for High School

Abstract

The article examines the relationships between the subjects of learning, both the student and the teacher, and the mobilization of the concept of democracy, in the National Common Curricular Base, stage of High School, highlighting the area of Applied Human and Social Sciences, final version of 2018. The way in which the concept of democracy appears in the current curriculum base text is analyzed, based on the historical circumstances of the production of this final version of this curriculum and, also, based on the theoretical delimitation of the dilemmas that affect contemporary subjectivities. The main conclusion is that democracy is situated as a regulator of the ethical-political aspirations of students, under the bias, however, of a horizon of political stability, devoid of historicity, thus emptying the agency and the confrontation of the contemporary crisis by the subjects of learning.