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In the Common Core National Curriculum (Base Nacional Comum Curricular, or BNCC) for basic education which came into effect in 2018, the declared ideological basis was a preoccupation with citizenship seen as a concern with the quality of education in Brazil with its extreme regional differences. It is intended to overcome the perceived shortcomings of previous national curricula, such as the […] National Curriculum Document (Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, or PCN`s), which were based on the homogeneous educational needs, demands and characterisitcs of the largely urban, industrial and prosperous Southeast of the country. With a lack of adequate funding for materials and teacher education in the rest of the country, it is claimed that the previous curricula ended up privileging learners in the Southeast who received an adequate education, and created a divide with the rest of the country whose needs, demands, and largely rural characteristics were not attended to, thus prejudicing equality of opportunities and citizenship. The BNCC then proceeds to offer the possibility of a “commom core” model of which at least 60% of its content needs to be covered nationally, while 40% can be “complemented” regionally by schools systems. What concern us here is how the teaching of languages is portrayed In the BNCC, and the political implications of this.

(Available at: Menezes de Souza, L. M. T. Coloniality, epistemicide, and language learning in Brazil. In: Multilingual Nations, Monolingual Schools: Confronting colonial language policies across the Americas. New York: Teachers College Press, p. 64, 2024 )