Em defesa da vida

currículo e biopolítica

Abstract

Michael Foucault in the works In Defense of Society (2010) and Security, Territory, Population (2008) develops understandings about the meaning of sovereign power and biopower, producing a biopolitics. This condition leads us to think about the curriculum in the teaching of Natural Sciences and its Technologies (CNTs), through the Formative Itinerário (IF) health, proposed in the Referencial Curricular Gaúcho do Ensino Médio (RCGEM), in the control and regulation over the life of the working student. That is, it is the presence of power providing the student's way of life through disciplining, which causes the student to think about knowledge. This ordering is called by Foucault as biopolitics that aims at regulating the mass of bodies, called population. Although Foucault does not intend the concept of archive, composed of statements, as a methodological means, we will understand it as a theoretical-methodological tool for the constitution of the knowledge under study. In this sense, the school and the curriculum in the teaching of CNTs need to make room for further discussions of existing regulations for the preservation of the working student's life. So saying, the curriculum is in constant production and conception, highlighting the statements that form the discourses in relation to the theme life at work in the students education.