Denial of politics and politicization of education:

the discursive practice of the School without Party Movement

Abstract

In this text, our intention is to situate the discourse elaborated by The School Without Party Movement. (Movimento Escola Sem Partido - ESP), which aims to construct a certain narrative about important themes in education, specifically in the curriculum field. In its ideological action, the ESP defends the depoliticization of the school, the separation between the formation and the teaching and the discourse about the control of the corporeity, emphasizing the questions of identity and gender. When we deal with the movement in a historical perspective, we will do it from two crucial moments for the construction of the right-wing politics hegemony. Initially, we recovered important aspects of the process of construction of the discourse, based on technical rationality, elaborated by the Rational Organization of Labor Institute (Instituto de Organização Racional do Trabalho - IDORT) in the 1930’s. After that, we analyzed aspects that marked the political action construction of the Research and Social Studies Institute (Instituto de Pesquisa e Estudos Sociais - IPES) in the 1960’s, its ideological action and the theses it defended. Finally, we return to the ESP, and proceed to the analysis of some of the theses that they defend and the limits that they express.