<b>A comparative study official curriculum documents (1979 and 1999)</b> - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v33i1.12496

Abstract

The study, which was recently completed, was conducted in the field of curricular history and school culture. The focus was the schooling of disabled people in Brazil. The analysis was based on the comparative study of two curricular documents produced by the Ministry of Education in 1979 and 1999. Studies for/in/with the use of comparative study procedures were analyzed, aiming to detect their theoretical-methodological contributions for the investigation of a curricular, specific, history, as well as the translations of school culture, determined by a specificity - disability. Two analytical categories were selected for the comparison: school time and space. We considered time and space, within the limits of this paper, as the bearers of a logic of their own, a social logic that changes them into a place where human intentions are manifested. From this methodological profile, we inhered that it was impossible to analyze the documents in isolation, by assuming that they would contain translations of a schooling that has produced and has been a product of a curricular history centered on the demands/peculiarities of disabilities, being restricted to the adaptation of pedagogical procedures, as if only specialized knowledge would be able to account for the schooling of those individuals who have different characteristics from "normal" people