EDUCATIONAL REFORMS AND THE “NEW MORPHOLOGY” FOR WORK: HIGHLIGHTING THE AREA OF APPLIED HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Abstract

This article analyzes educational reforms in Brazil, with an emphasis on the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) and the New High School, from a Marxist perspective. Curricular changes, especially in the Humanities and Applied Social Sciences, are seen as instruments for adapting education to the market interests of capital, promoting the relegation of knowledge to secondary importance and the fragmentation of emancipatory knowledge. By prioritizing basic competencies and educational itineraries, the BNCC limits access to historical and social content essential to the development of the working class, contributing to their alienation and passivity in the face of capitalist logic. The research, based on authors such as Marx, Lukács, and Mészáros, highlights that education, tied to work, is shaped to meet market demands, depleting education's transformative potential. The study concludes that the reforms reinforce the structural crisis of capital, promoting a minimalist education that hinders young people's critical understanding of reality, perpetuating inequalities, and limiting emancipation.